From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 23 07:36:59 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5314F16A420 for ; Tue, 23 May 2006 07:36:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yurtesen-dated-1149233815.31b5f6@ispro.net.tr) Received: from smtp.ispro.net.tr (smtp.ispro.net.tr [62.244.220.178]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 470CE43D46 for ; Tue, 23 May 2006 07:36:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from yurtesen-dated-1149233815.31b5f6@ispro.net.tr) Received: (qmail 83509 invoked by uid 89); 23 May 2006 07:36:55 -0000 Received: from [80.223.250.217] (dsl-aur-fefadf00-217.dhcp.inet.fi [80.223.250.217]) by localhost.my.domain (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Tue, 23 May 2006 10:36:50 +0300 (EEST) Message-ID: <4472BB57.7020001@ispro.net.tr> Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 10:35:51 +0300 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Vulpes Velox References: <4471ABF0.3090804@ispro.net.tr> <6.0.0.22.2.20060522102107.0274be28@mail.computinginnovations.com> <4471ECAA.3030406@daleco.biz> <20060522231641.7d63db65@vixen42.vulpes> In-Reply-To: <20060522231641.7d63db65@vixen42.vulpes> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.0.3 (Seattle Slew) From: Evren Yurtesen X-Primary-Address: yurtesen@ispro.net.tr Cc: Derek Ragona , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: e-mail server farm question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 07:36:59 -0000 Vulpes Velox wrote: > On Mon, 22 May 2006 11:54:02 -0500 > Kevin Kinsey wrote: > > >>>At 07:17 AM 5/22/2006, Evren Yurtesen wrote: >>> >>>>Hello, >>>> >>>>I was wondering how does services like yahoo mail is storing >>>>e-mails. Somehow the smtp server should know where to deliver >>>>the mail inside the system and webmail should know from which >>>>server to read it from. >>>> >>>>Does anybody have any practical ideas about how it is done? >>>> >> >>Derek Ragona wrote: >> > If you are using sendmail, as most FreeBSD users are, you can >> > check the sendmail.org site for information on mail handling. >> > There are a number of methods that depend on your setup. >> > >> >>Well, it's pretty obvious that they aren't using a stock >>SendMail: >> >># telnet mx2.mail.yahoo.com 25 >>Trying 67.28.113.72... >>Connected to mx2.mail.yahoo.com. >>Escape character is '^]'. >>220 mta309.mail.re4.yahoo.com ESMTP YSmtp service ready >> >>Short of finding an article written by someone 'in the know', >>or an answer for someone like that, we can only guess. I'd >>probably start with guessing a big DB on a large SAN; >>which pretty much negates the "which server to read from" >>question (up to a point). Everything else is pretty >>academic. SMTP, IMAP, POP. > > > Maildir makes it easy to distribute it across multiple machines as > well. What do you mean exactly? distributing 1 user's mails into seperate machines? I didnt understand how Maildir helps to this actually. Thanks, Evren