"F7596" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Now Let me try to configure a small one HotMail by up to down with
>scale of 1,000,000 mail accounts. Please help me to finish this issue.
>
>1. Choose OS as Linux
> (or FreeBSD, Solaris ? PC or SUN ? I am not sure which one is
> better?)
That's mostly a religious question. Go with what you're comfortable
with, or, if money is no object, whichever provides the best support
locally.
There are some reliability issues with ext2fs under Linux, so maybe
it's not the best choice at the moment.
>2. Prepare 10 PC as qmail mail server which store real mail
> (define as ms1.hotmail.com - ms10.hotmail.com, each server store
> 100,000 users' mail, each server also handle pop3 service )
>3. Prepare 1 PC as qmail-ldap server (define as ldap.hotmail.com)
>4. Prepare 1 PC as qmail-smtp server, (define as smtp.hotmail.com)
> which process incoming mail to dispatch each mail to accurate
> mail server (ms1 - ms10)
>
>And DNS Setting:
>hotmail.com MX 0 smtp.hotmail.com
>
>Operation flow:
>User with E-mail address : [EMAIL PROTECTED] , store in ms1.hotmail.com
>
>When anybody sendemail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], which mail will be send
>to smtp.hotmail.com,and smtp.hotmail.com will quere ldap.hotmail.com
>with real mail serverwhich store the [EMAIL PROTECTED], and then relay
>mail to ms1.hotmail.com
>
>Is there anything wrong in my configuration and understanding with QMail ?
>Do I miss anything ?
That looks OK to me. It'd be nice to have some redundancy,
though. Perhaps have each msN also be a second tier MX. Even better
would be to put user mailboxes on a NetApp Filer and skip the LDAP
stuff altogether. But that's pricey.
-Dave
