Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] opinions & know-how requested: how to create a mail cluster

2005-08-10 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 18:31 -0400, A. Khattri wrote: > vpopmail uses maildirs by > default - this means we can NFS mount delivery folders across machines > without worrying about file-locking, etc. This also means you can spread > POP3/IMAP traffic across several machines if you want. Is vpopmail

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] opinions & know-how requested: how to create a mail cluster

2005-08-05 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, daniel wrote: > very cool. > how many servers are you using for this? do you have a rough ratio for > users:servers? Its hard to say what the ratio of users/servers is - we haven't hit any major bottlenecks yet and we serve somewhere between 3000 - 4000 accounts. We have two

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] opinions & know-how requested: how to create a mail cluster

2005-08-05 Thread daniel
On August 5, 2005 06:31 pm, A. Khattri wrote: > On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, daniel wrote: > > So at the moment, my main issues are: > > > > - How do I replicate the user list from the master to the satellites? > > - What MTA should I use on the satellites and how would I configure it? > > > > I don't e

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] opinions & know-how requested: how to create a mail cluster

2005-08-05 Thread A. Khattri
On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, daniel wrote: > So at the moment, my main issues are: > > - How do I replicate the user list from the master to the satellites? > - What MTA should I use on the satellites and how would I configure it? > > I don't even know if "cluster" is the right word since whenever I go

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] opinions & know-how requested: how to create a mail cluster

2005-08-05 Thread kashani
daniel wrote: Thanks for all of your suggestions, LDAP has been recommended to already, though it came with the warning "it's an ugly beast" so I'm not really thrilled with the idea of adopting it. Actually, our company is rather small (<40 people). I've been asked to learn how to do this to

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] opinions & know-how requested: how to create a mail cluster

2005-08-05 Thread kashani
Raymond Lillard wrote: My first thought is that your first line of defense should be a bank of smtp servers that know nothing of your internal users. The first line of defense should be focused on virus detection, adherence to SMTP protocols and RFCs, greet-pause, listing (black, white and grey)

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] opinions & know-how requested: how to create a mail cluster

2005-08-05 Thread daniel
On August 5, 2005 06:03 pm, Raymond Lillard wrote: > daniel wrote: > > [SMTP] [SMTP][SMTP] [SMTP] > > | || | > > +-++---+-+ > >| > > [SMTP+POP3] > > I am assuming (from the 4 smtp servers) that you have

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] opinions & know-how requested: how to create a mail cluster

2005-08-05 Thread kashani
daniel wrote: My boss wants me to create a bunch of mail relays to capture and relay mail sent to us and discard spam etc, but I'm not sure where to start. I'd like to use exim unless you all have a better idea. To be honest, at the moment, I'm not sure where to start. Here's a simple diagr

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] opinions & know-how requested: how to create a mail cluster

2005-08-05 Thread Raymond Lillard
daniel wrote: My boss wants me to create a bunch of mail relays to capture and relay mail sent to us and discard spam etc, but I'm not sure where to start. I'd like to use exim unless you all have a better idea. To be honest, at the moment, I'm not sure where to start. Here's a simple diagr

[gentoo-user] [OT] opinions & know-how requested: how to create a mail cluster

2005-08-05 Thread daniel
My boss wants me to create a bunch of mail relays to capture and relay mail sent to us and discard spam etc, but I'm not sure where to start. I'd like to use exim unless you all have a better idea. To be honest, at the moment, I'm not sure where to start. Here's a simple diagram that might he