Thanks for your response. Do you know any other
database driven mailserver who supports this? I just
could find dbmail and citadel and another which could
be run on debian. It is appriciated if you could guide
me. 

Thanks in advance
Fatemeh T.

--- Paul J Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Dbmail will run on pretty much any platform that
> supports GCC,
> autotools, and libtool. So yes, redhat whatever
> is/should be supported
> without any trouble.
> 
> Loadbalancing is more tricky. There are two main
> bottlenecks in the
> current setup:
> 
> - concurrent connections; the total sum of running
> dbmail processes and
> hence concurrent client connections is determined by
> the sum of
> connections your database cluster will support. 
> There is at present no
> mechanism for connection pooling. This is planned
> for the 2.3
> developement cycle.
> 
> - multi-master sql backend replication; the size of
> your database
> cluster is limited by the fact that limitations in
> the imap protocol
> will not allow multi-master replication out-of-the
> box. Insertion of new
> messages will have to be done in order of arrival
> acros the whole
> installation. The algorithme to remedy this has been
> discussed in depth,
> but implementation is not planned at the moment.
> 
> Both issues are documented on the wiki pages.
> 
> Probably the best route for scalability and
> loadbalancing is by
> distribution of mailboxes accros several database
> clusters, and by
> redirecting imap clients to the correct cluster by
> using imapproxy.
> Of course, insertion will also have to be redirected
> and shared
> mailboxes are limited to a single database cluster.
> 
> 
> Fatemeh Taj wrote:
> > Hi dear All
> > I am looking for a database driven mailserver for
> a
> > big environment which will serve webhosting
> service
> > and would have more than 5 millions of mailboxes
> in
> > future. As I found out DBmail supports virtual
> > domains. My question is that if DBmail works with
> > Redhat AS 4 edition. Also if I can implement a
> load
> > balancing scenario and have a horizontal scale out
> for
> > this email service with dbmail.
> > 
> > Any idea is appriciated in advance
> > Fatemeh T.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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