Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 10:35:51 +0300 From: Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@ispro.net.tr> To: Vulpes Velox <v.velox@vvelox.net> Cc: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: e-mail server farm question Message-ID: <4472BB57.7020001@ispro.net.tr> In-Reply-To: <20060522231641.7d63db65@vixen42.vulpes> References: <4471ABF0.3090804@ispro.net.tr> <6.0.0.22.2.20060522102107.0274be28@mail.computinginnovations.com> <4471ECAA.3030406@daleco.biz> <20060522231641.7d63db65@vixen42.vulpes>
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Vulpes Velox wrote: > On Mon, 22 May 2006 11:54:02 -0500 > Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> 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
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