Re: Mail Server Design
do you have any clue? about what is the propper File System for mail
storage server (by performance). Ext3, Ext2, ReiserFS, etc etc.
On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 10:59, Adam Aube wrote:
> Mariano Wahlmann wrote:
>
> > I need some help, on designing a mail server solution (structure)
>
> > I have two proposal:
> >
> > 1- One big expensive server with 1 SCSI disk, two processors.
> > 2- Several cheaps servers, dividing mailboxes across servers.
>
> I would say go with (2). This system would have 3 parts:
>
> 1) Mail store server - mail store is in maildir format and shared using NFS
> 2) POP/IMAP server
> 3) SMTP server - also provides spam/virus filtering
>
> Distributes the load, limits effects of a failure, and scales well. Just
> make sure the mail store has some redundancy - either use one server with
> redundant disks, or two servers in a cluster using drdb or some other live
> replication tool.
>
> Adam
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