Re: Documentation of big "mail systems"?

[Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>]

On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 11:18:55PM +0200,
 Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> wrote 
 a message of 19 lines which said:

> I'm currently writing a proposal for a webmail service for, say, 50
> 000 to 500 000 users. I'm looking for description of existing "big
> mail" systems, using technologies like scalemail
> (http://scalemail.sourceforge.net/), specially with an emphasis on the
> storage subsystem for the servers (my weak point, I don't really have
> enough experience with SAN, NAS, and so on).

Here is a first bibliography (XML and BibTex). Thanks for all those
who replied. 

It is funny to note that the storage is hardly discussed in the
papers. It's probably less fun than LDAP and Postfix but I believe it
is more critical.


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="us-ascii" ?>
<!-- Documentation of similar setups -->

<!DOCTYPE bibliography SYSTEM "internet.dtd">

<!-- $Id: examples.xml,v 1.1 2004/10/19 14:34:31 bortzmeyer Exp $ -->

<bibliography>

  <netresource>
    <author>
      <firstname>David</firstname>
      <lastname>Carter</lastname>
    </author>
    <title>Scaling up Cambridge University's email service</title>
    <year>2004</year>
    <url>http://www-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk/~fanf2/hermes/doc/talks/2004-02-ukuug/paper.html</url>
  </netresource>

  <netresource>
<!-- Not a lot of technical details (it's a set of slides) but nice
and useful pictures -->
    <author>
      <firstname>Suresh</firstname>
      <lastname>Ramasubramanian</lastname>
    </author>
    <title>Managing Millions Of Mailboxes. Capacity &amp; Performance Lessons</title>
    <year>2004</year>
    <url>http://www.hserus.net/mailboxes-srs-inboxevent2004.ppt</url>
  </netresource>

  <netresource>
<!-- Earthlink setup. Old but interesting. -->
    <author>
      <firstname>Nick</firstname>
      <lastname>Christenson</lastname>
    </author>
    <author>
      <firstname>Tim</firstname>
      <lastname>Bosserman</lastname>
    </author>
    <author>
      <firstname>David</firstname>
      <lastname>Beckemeyer</lastname>
    </author>
    <title>A Highly Scalable Electronic Mail Service Using Open Systems</title>
    <year>1997</year>
    <url>http://www.gangofone.com/~npc/doc/mail_arch.html</url>
  </netresource>

  <netresource>
    <!-- An example with Exim -->
    <author>
      <firstname>Yann</firstname>
      <lastname>Golanski</lastname>
    </author>
    <title>The Exim Mail Transfer Agent in a Large Scale Deployment</title>
    <year>2000</year>
    <url>http://www.nndg.york.ac.uk/staff/yann/lsm.ps</url>
  </netresource>
</bibliography>

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@MISC{,
    author = {David Carter},
    title = {Scaling up Cambridge University's email service},
    year = 2004,
    note = {\url{http://www-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk/~fanf2/hermes/doc/talks/2004-02-ukuug/paper.html}},
  }

@MISC{,

    author = {Suresh Ramasubramanian},
    title = {Managing Millions Of Mailboxes. Capacity & Performance Lessons},
    year = 2004,
    note = {\url{http://www.hserus.net/mailboxes-srs-inboxevent2004.ppt}},
  }

@MISC{,

    author = {Nick Christenson},
    author = {Tim Bosserman},
    author = {David Beckemeyer},
    title = {A Highly Scalable Electronic Mail Service Using Open Systems},
    year = 1997,
    note = {\url{http://www.gangofone.com/~npc/doc/mail_arch.html}},
  }

@MISC{,
    
    author = {Yann Golanski},
    title = {The Exim Mail Transfer Agent in a Large Scale Deployment},
    year = 2000,
    note = {\url{http://www.nndg.york.ac.uk/staff/yann/lsm.ps}},
  }