From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 15 03:36:24 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46FC216A4CE for ; Fri, 15 Oct 2004 03:36:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.emediaone.net (orion.emediaone.net [203.208.226.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9378243D45 for ; Fri, 15 Oct 2004 03:36:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jett@angdatingdaan.org) Received: from mail.emediaone.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.emediaone.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97FDF4506E; Fri, 15 Oct 2004 11:38:57 +0800 (SGT) Received: from mail.angdatingdaan.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.emediaone.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 56C414504A; Fri, 15 Oct 2004 11:38:57 +0800 (SGT) Received: from devnull.chikka.com ([203.190.72.108]) (SquirrelMail authenticated user jett@angdatingdaan.org) by mail.angdatingdaan.org with HTTP; Fri, 15 Oct 2004 11:38:57 +0800 (SGT) Message-ID: <34513.203.190.72.108.1097811537.squirrel@mail.angdatingdaan.org> In-Reply-To: <20041014173907.GA2186@ernie.lan.net> References: <20041012212051.5A91A148D1@mail.sources.org> <20041014173907.GA2186@ernie.lan.net> Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 11:38:57 +0800 (SGT) From: "Jett Tayer" To: "Jo Geraerts" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-AV-Checked: ClamAV using ClamSMTP cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Documentation of big "mail systems"? X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 03:36:24 -0000 well can u share us some howtos similar to your setup? > > hi, > > > On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 11:20:51PM +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: >> I'm currently writing a proposal for a webmail service for, say, 50 >> 000 to 500 000 users. I'm looking for description of existing "big >> mail" systems, using technologies like scalemail >> (http://scalemail.sourceforge.net/), specially with an emphasis on the >> storage subsystem for the servers (my weak point, I don't really have >> enough experience with SAN, NAS, and so on). > > i would seriously consider a qmail-ldap system as backend. Especially the > clustering feature is very nice. With this clustering you can simply use > off-the-shelf hardware and balance the mailboxes over the mailstores ( > as i call them.)