Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 13:33:17 +0100 (CET) From: "Kurt Jaeger" <pi@complx.LF.net> To: stuart@eclipse.net.uk (Stuart Henderson) Cc: andrew@squiz.co.nz (Andrew McNaughton), haifeng@ms.lawton.com.cn (Haifeng Guo), freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mail server setup Message-ID: <m10IXJV-000zycC@complx.LF.net> In-Reply-To: <36DE58A9.E048B6EA@eclipse.net.uk> from "Stuart Henderson" at Mar 04, 1999 09:55:53 AM
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Hi! > > I don't imagine you really want to have to organise 100,000 > > users into changing their pop server settings. You can > > probably multiplex your domain name out to multiple machines > > all connecting via NFS (probably a dedicated mini-network > > between the servers), and have all of your mail stored on > > one file system. > You could have a daemon on a cluster of machines (either DNS or > NAT-based load balancing) to answer port 110, examine the username to > choose a server and proxy off the connection. Aren't NFS mounted mail > spools generally a Bad Thing? Depends on the setup. Have a look at: http://www.earthlink.net/company/mail_arch.html It describes their e-mail architecture for quite a large user community. -- MfG/Best regards, Kurt Jaeger 21 years to go ! LF.net GmbH pi@LF.net Vor dem Lauch 23 fon +49 711 90074-23 Friedrich-Ebert-Str.1 D-70567 Stuttgart fax +49 711 7289041 40210 Duesseldorf fon +49 211 179253-11 For Redmond: "nuke the site from orbit-- it's the only way to be sure." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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