Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 12:09:48 -0500 (EST) From: Steve Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net> To: Luis Munoz <lem@cantv.net> Cc: Angelo Nardone <ang@adinet.com.uy>, "freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: e-mail server Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.990110120811.16218T-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net> In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990110105804.011d25a0@pop.cantv.net>
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If I had to do something that large.. I would try the dnew's peoples dmail - it comes with a popper and a web gateway for web based email, and it databases incoming email kinda like dnews does for news, and it doesnt invoke a separate process for each client, which saves on ram. I havent tried it - I use MMDF and havent thought up a good transitional plan yet.. but I do use dnews and that is pretty kick fanny! :) On Sun, 10 Jan 1999, Luis Munoz wrote: > > My advice would be: > > (1) Stick to FreeBSD no matter what. > (2) You need memory. When I do capacity planning for this, I > aim for 10% simultaneous users at the box. For something > like this, I would use some 256M to have spare legroom. > (3) CPU consumption might not be a big issue with today's deals. > A PII@256MHz will do very well. > (4) If you have the budget, consider a RAID for storing the email. > I don't have experience with RAID cards but we use here > external RAID systems that look to the server as a single > big and fast disk. Keep in mind that disk might very well > be your problem. You need a bunch of space AND very good > I/O response. > (5) The choice of MTA software (sendmail, qmail, etc) is more of > a religious choice :) I would go with sendmail and deliver > mail to the mailboxes with a patched procmail so that it > provides 'maildir' delivery. This makes it easy to share > mail stores among machines for redundancy, load balancing, > etc. You'll need a POP server that accept this format. > It could be a patched POP server from qmail, so that it > properly logs to syslog. > > I don't know about web-mail, so I have no advice about this one. > > Regards and good luck. > > -lem > > At 03:01 PM 06/01/99 -0300, Angelo Nardone wrote: > >Could someone help me ? > >I need to make an e-mail server for 40.000 users. I'll plan to use > >sendmail in a FreeBSD box with web-mail. > >I'll very appreciate comments. Like i must use the user account or use a > > > >database for the mail, how arrange the directories for that amount of > >user, quotas, etc. > >Thanks. > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > > > > > > > ----- > (ASP) Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) announced today > that the release of its productivity suite, Office > 2000, will be delayed until the first quarter of > 1901. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > ------------------------------------------------------------------ Steve Hovey Chief Network Administrator BuffNET More Than Just a Connection! ------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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