Hello,
My current DBMail system is getting very unstable and needs a full reset every
now and then with the system complianting about not having enough database
connections or imap connections that fail after a few seconds. (Currently
usinbg 2.0.10 on Gentoo Linux with postfix/mysql) Also, my nightly cleanup
database script is currently running for 55 minutes at midnight and no one is
able to check their mail during that time of day. For some reference, I have
about 60 real users and my Database size is about 2 to 4GB runing on a
Pentium-III 1Ghz with 1GB RAM.
The base OS is patched for a few years, I am going to do a fuull reimage and
reinstallation. And hopefully most of these problems would be gone.
My first question would be what would be the best method to do the install,
download the .tar.gz, follow the normal method or use portage? (I am aware that
dbmail is not in the main portage database, but if I am going to use the
ebuilt, what are the commands/step I should be taking?) And which init script
files should I be using. (I was using the posted Gentoo ones from the mailing
list a few years ago)
Second question is is 2.2 stable enough? I don't want a confidence lost with my
users when I perform the upgrade. I am very interested in the LDAP as I want to
implement a groupware package during this round of upgrades.
My Third question is, it is possible to use a second machine to do anti-spam
filtering? I am considering doing this as it gives some redundancy to my mail
setup as I can set the primary reciever to this machine and it forwards to the
real mail server. (As well as keeping the email server nice and simple) Any
community views on this?
Thank you all
Regards
Mr. Sunny Koh
Executive System Administrator
Acorn Eduatinment Pte Ltd
Part of
The NurtureCraft Group
Singapore
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