From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Jan 25 8:40: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from nathanm.office.socket.net (nathanm.office.socket.net [216.106.0.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8697214FC3 for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 08:39:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vae@nathanm.office.socket.net) Received: from localhost (vae@localhost) by nathanm.office.socket.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA07115; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 10:36:39 -0600 Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 10:36:38 -0600 (CST) From: Vaevictus Asmadi To: Ryan Matteson Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Designing a Mail system In-Reply-To: <009b01bf66d7$0dbf35e0$7350f7a5@winnie> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I've been considering this, and decided that i'd use normal servers for the back end and just split up the userbase between them, using the gateways to forward users to the correct server. < $0.02 Vae On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Ryan Matteson wrote: > Does anyone have any advice or docs on designing a reliable, > scaleable, fault tolerant mail system for 30k+ users?? I am > presently working on putting together such a system and > the front end (POP3/IMAP) and Mail gateways don't > cause me any concern, it is the storage on the back end for > the actual email and users folders that I question. How are > ppl doing this and what suggestions or designs have ppl used > for this type of email system??? > > Thanks in advance for any info, > > Ryan > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message