interesting. well if I may suggest a few more things for you..in addition to what you are planning. btw I dont handle large emails at all (just a personal website for hobby) but just some more things you might think about;
do you have more than 1 dns MX entry already? if not, you can use the machines for backup MX dns email servers probably you can divide the incoming load as well by just putting same priority on MX (although i havent tried that). you can split yur domain into subdomain.domain.com and anotherdomain.domain.com, and assign users to each...probably that will be easier to route and process (than routing users)...(although as you said you want all users on the same domain...) ps I dont know what horde/imp is. have a nice day jondz > > I will be making used of old servers. I am concern if > 1 server will be able to handle the number of users > alone in terms of processing speed. This kind of setup > up is for future design. I'm assuming that we will be > able to buy atleast 1 brand new machine in the future > and I will assign this as SMTP server and the old > machines as mail servers with different users so as to > be able to divide processing between the two or more > low end servers. > > Although i have used Horde/imp with sendmail before, I > haven't really tried the 3 server setup that I have in > mind. > > ================================== > Well Velle, offtopic, can I ask why your using 2 > internal mail hosts but only 1 external > relay? is it for redunancy or is your 2 internal > user groups far away from each other that you > have to split incoming mail? > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! > http://platinum.yahoo.com > _ > Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph > To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph > > To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL > PROTECTED] > _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
