Hello Tim, You do, indeed, have a big task infront of you. With a system of that magnitude, I would seriously start thinking of something based on UNIX -- Solaris or Linux. Check out SuSE's Email Server III -- I certainly believe this is worth investigating.
Cheers, Dominic On Sunday 21 April 2002 09:39, you wrote: > okay I see. > > I have the impossible task of setting up a mailsystem for 500,000+ > users.... With about some 10,000s simultaneous connections. > > I believe IMail is able to do the trick, I only try to figure out the best > configuration. Of course, an external DB is much less troublesome when you > want > to mod or del users. > > Would it be possible to split the IMail program from the userfiles: > Use a couple of NLB servers for the server+webmail and a couple for SQL > userDB and > mailstorage? > > BTW: this is an open invitation to any of you to suggest the best possible > configuration > for this many users. > > Thanks, > Tim van den Hoff > > > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > > Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Namens Norman J. Nolasco > > Verzonden: zondag 21 april 2002 18:18 > > Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Onderwerp: RE: [IMail Forum] external db > > > > > > You don't have to mess with the registry when you add/change/delete > > users. Mail is just stored in a text file or you can get it through > > some POP3 component like ASPMail... and you can do joins on the > > users if you're writing some kinda application. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tim van den > > Hoff > > Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 11:17 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] external db > > > > > > I see. And what's the benefit of that? > > > > > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > > > Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Namens Norman J. Nolasco > > > Verzonden: zondag 21 april 2002 18:09 > > > Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Onderwerp: RE: [IMail Forum] external db > > > > > > > > > Just the user information (username, password, etc...) and some > > > flags (spell > > > check > > > enabled, list administrator, etc...). No mail. > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tim van den > > > Hoff > > > Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 9:08 AM > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: [IMail Forum] external db > > > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > This might be a very stupid question, but I can't seem to find > > > > the answer > > > > > (which I'd like to have before trying): > > > > > > When you use an external database for the users, let's say SQL, > > > > would that > > > > > DB also be used for storing all > > > preferences and mail files, or just the user's details? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Tim van den Hoff > > > > > > > > > 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/ > > > > > > Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked > > > questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > > > > > > > > > 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/ > > > > > > Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked > > > questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > > > > 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/ > > > > Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked > > questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > > > > > > 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/ > > > > Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked > > questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > > 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/ > > Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked > questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > --- > [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] 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/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
