Marc Perkel wrote:
qqqq wrote:
My point here is - think outside the box. I'm going to be lobbying IMAP
server developers to include SQL backends. exim could pipe data into a
local delivery agent, or it can have features written to write directly
to the SQL backend.
Thoughts ..... ?
We are looking at using DBMail as a mail archive for clients to pull
lost and historic mail at a later date. But not for daily use.
Because I am an SQL dummy, I do have this question. Would aps like
Mysql and Postgres be able to handle 10,000+ users with an average of
50 MB of email?
I really don't know.
Also, does the body just get written to a table?
Enlighten me,
QQQQ
That would be about 500 gigs of email. Fry's Electronics has drives that
size on special for $189. So - I'd say yes, should be fairly easy to
scale up to that size and beyond.
If you are building a high performance mail server, even just a
mailstore, you aren't buying hardware at Fry's. Our mail gateways take
in 2gb of messages a day for 6k+ accounts. That is after we have
rejected 70% of the connections.
Between two mail gateways and three toasters we have 14 disks that never
stop seeking, never, 24/7/365. A consumer grade storage device would
scream "mommy" and wet itself.
DAve
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