Re: [cobalt-developers] email accounts

["E.B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

DTH> Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 15:30:04 -0500
DTH> From: "Dave @ The Hostworks"


DTH> Oh yes, thats WAY out of a single cobalt's league.. To

Indeed.


DTH> handle 60,000 active e-mail accounts you might want to look
DTH> into a cluster of servers, or atleast a HUGE single server
DTH> (dual processors etc..)

Simplying sending and receiving mail isn't CPU-intensive.
Sendmail slows down because of blocking on disk IO... using a
faster CPU just means it has that many more clock cycles to waste
doing nothing. ;-)

For a large mailserver, you need maildir.  Mbox stinks. :-)  Use
Postfix (my favorite) or qmail.  A fast drive array is your
friend.  Content-scanning services, such as spam filtering or AV,
are what will increase the need for CPU and/or memory.

For reliability purposes, more than one machine would be a good
idea...


Eddy
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