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Re: Very huge email service



At 01:33 AM 11/23/99 -0300, Baltazar Quinterno wrote:
>Does anyone had to configure mail servers to serve 30 millon users,
>with smtp and pop3, if so can you give any clue , because i dont know
>from where to start.

Were you thinking of serving them all off one domain address??  Because with
that many users your usernames are going to get pretty cryptic.  I'ld highly
recommend spliting them up into subdomains.  e.g. user@east.domain.com,
user@west.domain.com, etc.  Doing it off one domain is possible with load
balancing or round-robin DNS.  The limiting factor is going to be the
traffic from the various servers accessing the central database.  

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