anyone here using a toaster to serve /var/spool/mail, including to a mail gateway machine (ie, not just for reading)?
any comments thereon? particularly, what flavour of toaster, how configured, and roughly how many mail users.
Tom Yates - Unix Chap - The Mathworks, Inc. - +1 (508) 647 7561 MAG#65061 DoD#0135 AMA#461546 1024/CFDFDE39 0C E7 46 60 BB 96 87 05 04 BD FB F8 BB 20 C1 8C
by the way, hello and welcome to all toaster owners out there. also to the many people from netapp who've subscribed to this list, for which, many thanks. hopefully this will be an information conduit without being a high-volume pain-in-the-bum.
From: Tom Yates madhatta@mathworks.com
anyone here using a toaster to serve /var/spool/mail, including to a mail gateway machine (ie, not just for reading)?
Yep. Currently a F330 with 24 disks, 8MB NVRAM, 256MB RAM, 100BaseT network. This server handles mail and home directories for approx. 60K users. We're currently running (relatively) stock sendmail and popper. This works quite well. The mail problem is with the way popper handles mailboxes, but we're not blaming Netapp for that. (We'd _love_ to be able to change to a file-per-message mailbox format, but this is currently not really feasible - som people read mail from spool, and the programs that to this will have to be rewritten to use pop)
If things go our way, we'll upgrade to a F540 within not too long - and reassign the 330 for other uses.
regards,
---Ketil Kirkerud, Scandinavia Online
On Thu, 13 Mar 1997, Ketil Kirkerud wrote:
From: Tom Yates madhatta@mathworks.com
anyone here using a toaster to serve /var/spool/mail, including to a mail gateway machine (ie, not just for reading)?
Yep. Currently a F330 with 24 disks, 8MB NVRAM, 256MB RAM, 100BaseT network. This server handles mail and home directories for approx. 60K users. We're currently running (relatively) stock sendmail and popper. This works quite well. The mail problem is with the way popper handles mailboxes, but we're not blaming Netapp for that. (We'd _love_ to be able to change to a file-per-message mailbox format, but this is currently not really feasible - som people read mail from spool, and the programs that to this will have to be rewritten to use pop)
*eight* Mb NVRAM. that's interesting.
i'm running an F330 with 18 discs, 128MB RAM, fddi and *2*Mb NVRAM, serving POP mail to about 600 users and it's being nearly ground into the dust. yes, POP's insane method of mailbox handling is the root cause of the problem (imho), but short of grieving qualcomm to get them to support IMAP, and grieving the users to get them to trim their INBOXes down a bit (well, a lot), i'm wondering if i might do better with a little more NVRAM. RAM i think i'm ok on, because the cache seems to be fine (5-10s) most of the time. how does one test for a shortage of NVRAM?
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