Re: Large imap server.

2006-02-22 Thread Francisco Reyes
Bill Campbell writes: Thanks much for sharing the info This server is the primary NFS server with 2GB of RAM, with dual 3GhZ Pentium IVs. While not a truly low-end box, it probably cost about $1,500USD. Ok... so 1 NFS server. This system as one publically accessible MX server that

Re: Large imap server.

2006-02-15 Thread Francisco Reyes
Foo Ji-Haw writes: I'm not sure what's the peak traffic like, but we were using a standard P3 800Mhz server h/w w/ 1GB RAM, and SCSI drives. How many of those? Also is that your front-end (ie POP/IMAP) machine or your storage (NFS server) machine?

Re: Large imap server.

2006-02-14 Thread Francisco Reyes
Bill Campbell writes: Cyrus scaling? We currently user Courier and so far I am far from impressed with it's scalability. We have NFS servers for the storage and then front end machines for the POP/IMAP connections. The footprint per connection is about 3MB to 5MB on the client. On a

Re: Large imap server.

2006-02-14 Thread Francisco Reyes
Foo Ji-Haw writes: I've been using FreeBSD + courier IMAP + MySQL (for user authentication). It's hardly a load issue for more than 200,000 users, and that was years ago. Would you mind sharing some info on the setup? First time I read about a courier setup of that size.

Re: Large imap server.

2006-02-14 Thread Bill Campbell
On Tue, Feb 14, 2006, Francisco Reyes wrote: Bill Campbell writes: Cyrus scaling? We currently user Courier and so far I am far from impressed with it's scalability. We have NFS servers for the storage and then front end machines for the POP/IMAP connections. The footprint per connection is

Re: Large imap server.

2006-02-14 Thread Foo Ji-Haw
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 5:35 AM Subject: Re: Large imap server. Foo Ji-Haw writes: I've been using FreeBSD + courier IMAP + MySQL (for user authentication). It's hardly a load issue for more than 200,000 users, and that was years ago. Would you mind sharing some info

Re: Large imap server.

2006-02-14 Thread Francisco Reyes
Foo Ji-Haw writes: Specifically my mail server combo was: FreeBSD 4.1 + Qmail + Courier IMAP + MySQL 3.22 How many clients did each front end machine handled? What was the hardware of the front-end machines? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Large imap server.

2006-02-14 Thread Foo Ji-Haw
, February 15, 2006 11:01 AM Subject: Re: Large imap server. Foo Ji-Haw writes: Specifically my mail server combo was: FreeBSD 4.1 + Qmail + Courier IMAP + MySQL 3.22 How many clients did each front end machine handled? What was the hardware of the front-end machines

Re: Large imap server.

2006-02-09 Thread Erik Norgaard
Bill Campbell wrote: On Wed, Feb 08, 2006, Erik Norgaard wrote: AFAIK cyrus-imap uses a database backend to store mail and has been designed to scale to enterprise systems. The database backend makes indexing and mail lookup faster, but I don't think there's any difference when it comes to

Re: Large imap server.

2006-02-08 Thread Erik Norgaard
Albert Shih wrote: I search some advice for large imap server. For me large is : 1000 users with 1 Go mails for each users. And every users check by imap/pop those mail every 2 or 3 minutes. What's the «best» imap server ? Cyrus Imap or Courier-Imap ? (please this is not a troll). Any

Re: Large imap server.

2006-02-08 Thread Bill Campbell
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006, Erik Norgaard wrote: Albert Shih wrote: I search some advice for large imap server. For me large is : 1000 users with 1 Go mails for each users. And every users check by imap/pop those mail every 2 or 3 minutes. What's the «best» imap server ? Cyrus Imap or Courier-Imap

Re: Large imap server.

2006-02-08 Thread Albert Shih
Le 07/02/2006 à 16:26:42-0800, Bill Campbell a écrit On Tue, Feb 07, 2006, Albert Shih wrote: Hi all I search some advice for large imap server. For me large is : 1000 users with 1 Go mails for each users. And every users check by imap/pop those mail every 2 or 3 minutes. What's

Re: Large imap server.

2006-02-08 Thread Bill Campbell
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006, Albert Shih wrote: Le 07/02/2006 à 16:26:42-0800, Bill Campbell a écrit On Tue, Feb 07, 2006, Albert Shih wrote: Hi all I search some advice for large imap server. For me large is : 1000 users with 1 Go mails for each users. And every users check by imap/pop those

Re: Large imap server.

2006-02-08 Thread Bill Campbell
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006, Albert Shih wrote: Le 07/02/2006 à 16:26:42-0800, Bill Campbell a écrit On Tue, Feb 07, 2006, Albert Shih wrote: Hi all I search some advice for large imap server. For me large is : 1000 users with 1 Go mails for each users. And every users check by imap/pop those

Re: Large imap server.

2006-02-08 Thread Foo Ji-Haw
Subject: Re: Large imap server. On Wed, Feb 08, 2006, Albert Shih wrote: Le 07/02/2006 à 16:26:42-0800, Bill Campbell a écrit On Tue, Feb 07, 2006, Albert Shih wrote: Hi all I search some advice for large imap server. For me large is : 1000 users with 1 Go mails for each users

Large imap server.

2006-02-07 Thread Albert Shih
Hi all I search some advice for large imap server. For me large is : 1000 users with 1 Go mails for each users. And every users check by imap/pop those mail every 2 or 3 minutes. What's the «best» imap server ? Cyrus Imap or Courier-Imap ? (please this is not a troll). What's kind of tunning I

Re: Large imap server.

2006-02-07 Thread Bill Campbell
On Tue, Feb 07, 2006, Albert Shih wrote: Hi all I search some advice for large imap server. For me large is : 1000 users with 1 Go mails for each users. And every users check by imap/pop those mail every 2 or 3 minutes. What's the «best» imap server ? Cyrus Imap or Courier-Imap ? (please

Re: Large imap server.

2006-02-07 Thread Martin Hudec
Hello, Bill Campbell wrote: On Tue, Feb 07, 2006, Albert Shih wrote: I search some advice for large imap server. For me large is : 1000 users with 1 Go mails for each users. And every users check by imap/pop those mail every 2 or 3 minutes. What's the «best» imap server ? Cyrus Imap