Do any administrators here have that kind of volume and use an external storage solution that provides sufficient speed. We could start there and try to build a scalable solution
---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Len Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 17:20:57 -0600 > >>Actually Len it does work I tried it out already. Like i said I don't >>have that much traffic so I really can't speak as to the scalability but >>it will work. And I know how IMail stores domains but once you setup a >>domain and choose the external datasource for users it imports what it >>need since the users are already setup. Again the only part i can't >>account for is scalability in this scenario > >this is the key requirement. > >> but there has to be some type of external storage that all three boxes >> could share that would produce sufficient enough speed. > >well, we know there are lots of Imail sites with 50K up to 200k users, so >the scaleability is a not trivial, and disk access for mailqueue and >mailbox access is the limiting factor for smtp/pop3 scalebility. and >memory/cpu comes into the picture more seriously for webmail. > >Len > > > > >> >> >> >> >> >>________________________________________________________________ >>Sent via the WebMail system at lohrtech.com >> >> >> >> >> >>Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html >>to be removed from this list. >> >>An Archive of this list is available at: >>http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > >http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training >http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : ISC BIND 8.2.4 for NT4 & W2K >http://IMGate.MEIway.com : Build free, hi-perf, anti-abuse mail gateways > > >Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html >to be removed from this list. > >An Archive of this list is available at: >http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > ________________________________________________________________ Sent via the WebMail system at lohrtech.com Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
