Mike, Would you care to share with us what is the Maximum Mail store quota that you guys allocate... on you F760?
We do a lot on email and we guess in the future we will be moving our mail stores onto something faster that having the queues, logs, mail store, split into 4 drives on SCSI160.
My concern of using a NAS is that you are still limited to 1Gbit ethernet... Our email system allows users to do searches for their mail boxes that will mean that the host will be pulling up 60MB of mail (in different files) of a NAS.
We have currently a few hundred users testing on the server and it is not an issue but we hope that "hk.com" will be reaching some serious numbers. The mail server is a single machine not multiple. The software we use does not allow us to split the MTA, web etc into different machines unless we pay some serious $$$'s.
I know a NAS would give us much better storage management however I think some SANs can I do to get some serious burst rates and be able to have multiple of these monster searches going in parallel.
What should we be doing... I have both various SAN and NAS options in stock on the shelf.
Thanks, Maren.
On Sat, 7 Feb 2004, Mike Horwath wrote:
On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 01:08:31AM -0500, Errol Casey wrote:
I've read various documents on mail servers and Netapps and other NFS servers etc, . but thought I would ask the question.
What MTA (sendmail, postfix, qmail, exim, etc.) have admins chosen to run and their reasoning if they would be open to sharing their feelings.
We use Postfix and Maildir format for the mailboxes, using Courier-IMAP for IMAP and POP3 services.
Works like a champ for 30K accounts, the F760 involved doesn't really take much of a beating at all.
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