Re: Mail Server Design - ez

2004-04-16 Thread Alvin Oga
On 16 Apr 2004, Mariano Wahlmann wrote: > I need some help, on designing a mail server solution (structure), my > request are: > > -Users 4000+ aprox. with a growth rate of 20/users by month. > -Each user has 15Mb of inbox. > -Accesible by POP3 / IMAP (Only for Webmail who resides in other serv

Re: Mail Server Design

2004-04-16 Thread Adam Aube
Mariano Wahlmann wrote: > do you have any clue? about what is the propper File System for mail > storage server (by performance). Ext3, Ext2, ReiserFS, etc etc. Any stable journalling filesystem will work fine. The biggest performance issue will likely be the speed of your disks. I would suggest

Re: Mail Server Design

2004-04-16 Thread Mariano Wahlmann
do you have any clue? about what is the propper File System for mail storage server (by performance). Ext3, Ext2, ReiserFS, etc etc. On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 10:59, Adam Aube wrote: > Mariano Wahlmann wrote: > > > I need some help, on designing a mail server solution (structure) > > > I have two p

Re: Mail Server Design

2004-04-16 Thread Adam Aube
Mariano Wahlmann wrote: > I need some help, on designing a mail server solution (structure) > I have two proposal: > > 1- One big expensive server with 1 SCSI disk, two processors. > 2- Several cheaps servers, dividing mailboxes across servers. I would say go with (2). This system would have 3

Re: Mail Server Design

2004-04-16 Thread Mariano Wahlmann
My backup strategy, is every day at 3AM, y make a tar of /var/spool/mail. and passes to another server. There is no need of having mirrors, because users knows that mail server could crash, and i will be restore on 4 hours. I make Spam filtering / AV checks, on other SMTP server, and then it passes

Re: Mail Server Design

2004-04-16 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
A couple of comments: What is your backup strategy? On the physical hardware side you may wish to look into supporting a redundant disk over RAID for at least the single server approach, to help deal with the inevitable disk crash :). If you want to mirror numbers of other servers for backup purpo

Re: Mail Server Design

2004-04-16 Thread Nicos Gollan
On 16 Apr 2004 09:16:11 -0300 Mariano Wahlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need some help, on designing a mail server solution (structure), my > request are: > > -Users 4000+ aprox. with a growth rate of 20/users by month. > -Each user has 15Mb of inbox. > -Accesible by POP3 / IMAP (Only for W