[Dovecot] Dovecot strong or not for a big Webmail architecture

2007-08-02 Thread John fistack
Hello, Do you think Dovecot could handle millions of active users in a big architecture ? This cluster could be for example (each server is a bi quad Xeon 2.66 Ghz) : - 40 Dovecot servers - 4 LVS - 20 Apache+PHP - 2 Openldap - 20 Postfix + ClamAV + SpamAssassin - 1 NFS Netapps For millions of

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot strong or not for a big Webmail architecture

2007-08-02 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 19:06 +, John fistack wrote: > For millions of user it could be multiple different clusters of 40 Dovecot > servers with 1 Netapp for each cluster. > I want to work in NFS. You'll want to read at least http://wiki.dovecot.org/NFS. Dovecot v1.1 makes problems with attribu

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot strong or not for a big Webmail architecture

2007-08-02 Thread Christian Balzer
Hello, On Thu, 2 Aug 2007 19:06:05 + (GMT) John fistack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Do you think Dovecot could handle millions of active users in a big > architecture ? > Sure, but the architecture will play a bigger role than just Dovecot. > This cluster could be for example (each serv

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot strong or not for a big Webmail architecture

2007-08-03 Thread Bill Boebel
On Thu, August 2, 2007 3:06 pm, John fistack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I know webmail.us use Dovecot, what is the most big dovecot architecture > known ? > Do you think Dovecot can handle 1 million of active users in a good > architecture ? Yep... and we have 500K very active users on it. We

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot strong or not for a big Webmail architecture

2007-08-03 Thread Cor Bosman
Hi, > > I know webmail.us use Dovecot, what is the most big dovecot architecture > > known ? > > Do you think Dovecot can handle 1 million of active users in a good > > architecture ? > > Yep... and we have 500K very active users on it. We've scaled Dovecot > horizontally without NFS, just lo

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot strong or not for a big Webmail architecture

2007-08-03 Thread Geert Hendrickx
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 12:03:30PM -0400, Bill Boebel wrote: > > Do you think it's a good solution to use one synchronised local Openldap on > > each > > server Dovecot ? > > No. I'd replicate your ldap database on a few servers that are dedicated > to that purpose, and on each mail server use D