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.
>
>
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