At 03:38 AM 03/08/2001 +0100, Philipp Gimm wrote:
>Anyways:
>We have to get a mail environment up and running ASAP.
>
> * currently 600.000 emails per day
> * 200.000 users/email addresses, single domain environment
> * the system must be scalable to support 800.000 users
> * authentication/lookup via some sort of db (not decided which yet)
Brad Knowles presented a paper on just this topic at LISA 2000. He has his
presentation online at http://www.shub-internet.org/brad/papers/
His paper is as much a critique of current practices and what their
shortcomings are, as much as it is about his own ideas for designing a new
system, but it's a good place to go for the information you need - he's
already been working on the research and design of his new system for over
a year..
Steve Hillman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Senior Systems Administrator (604) 291-3960
Simon Fraser University
