Re: Scalable Mail Solution

2001-03-01 Thread Jonathan J. Smith 

"Rob Hines Jr." wrote:
 
 In short, yes, there are Terrabyte solutions, they start in the several
 hundred thousand range, and go up according to what you need. Many
 companies that do that sort of volume use load balancers (layer 7
 usually), and several machines clustered together. I don't see any
 reason qmail couldn't handle that volume of users, but you're talking
 about some serious equipment costs, at least in the very high hundreds
 of thousands of dollars.
 
 The short answer to the question about what would happen if 2.5 million
 users hit your PIII server at once. In a word: *poof*
 
 Check out:
 
 http://www.f5.com
 (f5 Load balancers are cool, Foundry also makes some good gear, I forget
 the URL)


Foundry Networks is:

http://www.foundrynetworks.com/

Some very good solid equipment.


 http://www.nthgencomp.com/
 (Terabyte arrays)
 
 http://www.sun.com/
 (Servers that won't blow up under that load and Terabyte arrays)
 
 Hope that helps.
 
 Rob


Jonathan Smith

Re: A firestorm of protest?

2001-01-16 Thread Jonathan J. Smith 

"Robin S. Socha" wrote:
 
 * Dave Sill [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
  "Chris Garrigues" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  From: "David Dyer-Bennet" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
  "Upgrade" suggests adding features, rather more than "patch" does;
  patches are often released to fix bugs.
 
  How about "addition" or "extension"?
 
  I vote for "source code plug-ins". :-)
 
 Ummm... Nope. A plug-in is something one plugs in. Like relay-ctrl. Patches
 are not. A tool to magically merge patches one needs into one big patch
 (like Felix' jumbo patch) would be really neat (like, smtp-auth fails
 with the other patches I need applied).


Why not put together something like that.. a versioning tool for qmail
and patches... 
have a published standard format for dealing with it and specifing the
details for
each patch (Module)..

Jonathan Smith

Some assistance?

2001-01-13 Thread Jonathan J. Smith 

I need to be able to send/relay all of the messages in a maildir (the
default/catchall for that domain) back out to that domain,
there was a 'cessation' of the domains real mail server, and it is
operational again so the desire is to hand
these messages back to that machine.

Can anyone point me in the right direction to do this in a clean
fashion?  Failing that another way that isn't manual?

Thanks for your time,


Jonathan Smith

Pointers on qmail + vpopmail?

2000-09-19 Thread Jonathan J. Smith 

Anyone willing to spend a little time and a few emails to help clear
some things up for me?  I appreciate the time.

Jonathan Smith