Re: mail server w/ 65000++ users
On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 04:10:40PM +0800, Chad A. Adlawan wrote:
> does anybody have any URL's or docs w/ talks on how to build
> a mail server (both Exim and Sendmail are OK w/ me) with more
> than 65,000 users ? i.e., what are the available methods (and
> what are the best ones) of having mail users w/o having them on
> /etc/passwd.
i'd suggest postfix + cyrus. from comments in the postfix-users list, it
seems to be a nearly ideal combination for doing what you want.
both are packaged for debian.
postfix is at http://www.postfix.org/
URL for cyrus should be in the package's documentation.
i haven't used cyrus, but i'm a big fan of postfix - wouldn't use
anything else these days, and i've tried all of the available MTAs over
the last 5 or 6 years.
hint, for performance you probably want to look at a machine with
multiple fast scsci drives for the mail spool (raid striping), formatted
with reiserfs. and lots of memory, of course. CPU speed isn't a big
issue - mail systems are I/O bound.
craig
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craig sanders
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