Hi!

We just came accross DBMAIL because we require for a new application of ours an IMAP server that scales well. We were already thinking along simmilar lines regarding an IMAP frontend to mysql, but as our requirements are outside the "25000" account range given in the readme I am not sure, if the solution would scale to our requirements!

So I am asking for input for if a setup like this would be feasable:
* Users: 200000
* Messages/User: 80
* Avereage Message size: 100k
* 1 new  Mail/second

So that would sum up to 1.6TB of storage of storage-requirements. Currently we are planing for 3x overcommit, so this would reduce to 0.5TB of actual storage.

That is why I am a little bit sceptic if the "one" table storage-solution that dbmail provides (dbmail_messageblks) would scale that well. Another thing that I am a little bit scared, is that 0.5TB in one table might become a bottleneck in the end... The other thing ist that for performance reasons we definitely would like to split the data over several disks...

Any ideas, if such a setup is feasable with dbmail and if it would scale?

Input would be greately appreciated...

Cheers,
           Martin

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