thanks for your info guys, that was indeed helpful! One more question: should I use a "meta-package" like vpopmail, or would a plain qmail+mysql (maybe with a custom admin webinterface) be enough?
---------- quoting A. Khattri ---------- > On Thu, 5 May 2005, kashani wrote: > > other hand, spam filter can be CPU intensive and use a ton of RAM. > > If you plan on running spamassassin I would recommend offloading that to > one or more dedicated boxes running the daemonized spamassassin. > > We have two qmail servers here (third one is almost ready) plus we have > three other boxes dedicated to spamd and clamd. (We're using round-robin > DNS of a local zone to distribute spam+virus filtering to the filtering > boxes. This is for 3000-4000 mailboxes ;-) > > > I use Mysql on my current system with Postfix. I assume qmail can > > play nicely with Mysql as well. > > We are running tcpserver patched with a MySQL patch. We're using > vpopmail with MySQL. (Pretty much everything is running with MySQL, even > spamd preferences and squirrelmail preferences/address books. > > > I am running into some Mysql connection > > problems because each Postfix process has it's own Mysql connection. > > IIRC you can configure Mysql:proxy in Postfix and Courier to multiplex > > queries over a single connection... something I'm planning on doing > > later this month. > > We have separate read and write MySQL servers plus replication to a > third box. > > > -- -- Son, when you participate in sporting events, it's not whether you win or lose: it's how drunk you get. -- Homer Simpson Bart Gets An Elephant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list