On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 12:30:49PM -0400, Jeff Commando Sherwin wrote:
> Im also in the process of spec'in out some machines.
>
> >
> > Hmm. Would that depend on whether the 250K are mostly in or outbound?
> >
>
> If my mails are mostly inbound, (usr dirs over nfs).
>
> > It might also depend on what they are using to access the email, if it's
> > qpopper and /var/mail then I'd want more memory. If it's qmail-pop3d, then
> > it's probably ok.
> >
>
> im not useing pop or imap. (least on those machines).
So you are saying that this machine is inbound mostly and it delivers to Maildirs
on NFS?
> ah! ok. this is the big question. multiple queues. is the best way of
I wouldn't think so for those volumes unless they have an unusual delivery
distibution.
> doing this with multiple installations of qmail (/var/qmail0 /var/qmail1,
> ...) or is there away of creating multiple queues (with multiple instances
> of all the servers) per each ip address? Also, how easy is it to have
> some master queues break down to smaller queues (say to handle all email
> from hotmail, or something)?
>
> I realize that was a load of questions, and may be off topic from the
> subject heading, but I cant find alot of specific info on this in the
> archives.
I think you need to give us a better idea of the big picture. The first post
made it sound like a single machine, now you talk about NFS servers, multiple
IP addresses, separate access server, etc.
Regards.
