Re: Sugesstions building a rather big mail system.
On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 16:03, Fredrik wrote:
> Hello fellow sysadmins,
>
> I have been aproached about building a rather big mail system handling
> 500.0000 existing accounts (running today on a windows based product (ick))
> with a growth about 50.000 new accounts per year.
> The services needed is: smtp, pop3, imap4.
>
> I have used LVS for about 3y with good results for 30.000 acounts.
> But this is certainly a bigger project. Should I go for alteon or any other
> closed product or stick with LVS?
>
> Is there anyone on the list running such a system or have some comments about
> building such a system? (I do prefer to use OS/FS Software)
>
> My main concern is the storage. SAN?
> Anyone used supersparrow for source based load balancing?
>
> What do you think?
Check out
http://asg.web.cmu.edu/twiki/bin/view/Cyrus/CarnegieMellonCyrusInstallation
Not quite as large as your setup though.
> Thanks for you time.
>
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Hope this helps,
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