> I have not experienced any performance problems with that exact setup. I would
say having 36942 email accounts is a pretty good pool to gather data from. I've
used a similar setup with >50,000 accounts as well. It sounds to me that you may
have had some configuration or hardware issue that you didn't discover. As far
as using a single imapd, you're awfully trusting that you won't have any
problems IMHO. Lack of redundancy can become very obvious when you have a
failure.

Could be our NFS settings.  nfsd maxed out the 100mbit link regularly and of
course, NFS over UDP doesn't like such environments.  It was a nasty experience.

>> to the MX, where remote MTA's will stop using downed servers
>> automatically.
>
> He wasn't asking about MTA's but about imap/http load balancing via DNS RR. It
will work just fine given the caveat above.

I believe he was talking about SMTP as well.

John




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