David Nillesen wrote: > Hi, > I'm contemplating DBMail as a solution for our University > email system. I need to work through a few options to work out our best > choice. > > I have a few questions around scalability, I was hoping > someone could help. > > Our mailstore is currently around 32,000 users with around 8 > million emails on disk at the moment, occupying about 350GB of mail. > > How well does DBmail scale to these numbers on Postgres?
You will need a competent DBA to tune the indexes. I know there are installations of that size around, even running on mysql. > > Has anyone built a DBMail solution this big before I can have > a chat with? Sorry, non-disclosure etc. > Is there a solution for user self administration of > vacation/autoreply messages? Since we have a large number of accounts self > administration for the majority of user issues is important. I have found a > few administration webapps for admins, but nothing for users as far as I can > see. Definitely. DBmail supports sieve mailfiltering and has a managesieve server daemon for self administration by clients. Webmail clients such as horde(ingo) and squirrelmail(avelsieve) contain php code that will act as a client and talk to the sieve management daemon. > > We use LDAP for aliases, authentication and authorization. Is there any way > to tie this to DBmail? My main issue would be with aliases, everything else > we can work round with our IAM system executing SQL into Postgres to enable > users. LDAP is fully supported for aliases and authentication. Authorization (imap-acl) configuration is sql-based only. > If you would like to know more about our site and configuration, let me know. -- ________________________________________________________________ Paul Stevens paul at nfg.nl NET FACILITIES GROUP GPG/PGP: 1024D/11F8CD31 The Netherlands________________________________http://www.nfg.nl _______________________________________________ DBmail mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.fastxs.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dbmail
