From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 7 08:26:17 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DADA72B0; Fri, 7 Feb 2014 08:26:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qa0-x233.google.com (mail-qa0-x233.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400d:c00::233]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 80BC31FBA; Fri, 7 Feb 2014 08:26:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qa0-f51.google.com with SMTP id f11so4644067qae.38 for ; Fri, 07 Feb 2014 00:26:15 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=1SQCB0ZTGGWEYapf3uDlnTYS75/MjudGgCFB6A4V6O0=; b=FtYBPY695zz/n4Er4Z8XHDhKVP9OczClY5wY8tcNYBH7l7euW5sENh3n2e8UKrflnp pgChuDZ9NFrJNXc7GNowpqrflh+f4n6yzsuKaK9kfgKmqFlMX+mSNcEPFVgl+EhaCVNZ olyefmQNXG4U4v8XJ4R8s3vsoxtL2juLzYvHiCNBx4Ayp9VF1A2gb5aBcjFtRryDRDRV jj3espLwajaYrTB18YkcbzyTI0PYMawZ3FH1NAANN+MzqspeqruO6OGbNo2jM5fYnlPs Rnw1WxHlBobQfb0TtRl4Od7mlpAj3dhuyrqAED7pvE/sIk5TASVQYJkWYV/W5raSunEs B03g== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.140.102.204 with SMTP id w70mr18082319qge.110.1391761575742; Fri, 07 Feb 2014 00:26:15 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.96.37.227 with HTTP; Fri, 7 Feb 2014 00:26:15 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <1391611611.29097.79639009.4B0A4540@webmail.messagingengine.com> Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 08:26:15 +0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: installing big qmail server ... where to start? From: krad To: Odhiambo Washington Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.17 Cc: User Questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2014 08:26:17 -0000 1st thing I would do is really look at why you need to use qmail. If its because you want want maildir, I dont think there is modern MTA out there today that doesnt support it. Personally I would use exim for the MTA, with a db or ldap backend. However many folks out there love postfix. Is this box going to be a single all in one job or is it going to be a multi box solution? If its the latter then you will need a storage machine, serving out the maildirs via nfs. You can then have inbound mtas mounting it, some pop3/imap headends mounting it and maybe some webmail, although most webmails these days are imap wrappers. As Mark said previously with the filer zfs is the way to go and as its all NFS based you will be doing lots of sync writes so a fast dedicated ZIL will be very handy. On 5 February 2014 14:49, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > On 5 February 2014 17:46, Mark Felder wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 5, 2014, at 8:37, Raghupathy, Kiran wrote: > > > Looking for a best pracice storage config recommendations for qmail- > > > maildir setup > > > > > > > People still install qmail for new setups? (I'm genuinely curious) > > > > I haven't looked at the FreeBSD port, but I assume that we provide a > > healthy patchset, yes? > > > > My suggestion for any maildir server these days would be ZFS + SSD ZIL & > > L2ARC and LZ4 compression. > > > > > Hi Mark, > > Do you know of any HOWTO for that suggestion of maildir server? > > > -- > Best regards, > Odhiambo WASHINGTON, > Nairobi,KE > +254733744121/+254722743223 > "I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler." > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >