Daniel W wrote:
Jason S wrote:
I've been using squirrelmail successfully for about 2 years with a small userbase (about 1000). I have the opportunity to setup a webmail system for a large company (approx 150,000) users.
They currently only offer pop3 access and a heavily modified version of Omail for webmail. The backend is qmail/vpopmail w/Maildirs over NFS.
Anyone have experience with the scalability of such a large setup?
Thanks,
I dont think squirrelmail will be your sticking point. As long as you have a decent storage box you can stick multiple access machines out front each with squirremail on to spread the load. Think about getting a serious storage solution though.
Yes, SM is not going to be the bottleneck. You should read the thread from the last few days about load balancing and whatnot: you will want multiple www servers in front of a well-planned infrastructure, which is probably already built out from the sound of your mail. So your job will just be to make sure you get enough web servers and load balance them (LVS, etc) correctly, making sure you address issues of shared data directories if you have file-based prefs and file-based sessions... there was a lot of discussion about just that on the thread I mentioned above.
-paul
-paul
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