Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] opinions & know-how requested: how to create a mail cluster

[daniel]

On August 5, 2005 06:31 pm, A. Khattri wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, daniel wrote:
> > So at the moment, my main issues are:
> >
> >   - How do I replicate the user list from the master to the satellites?
> >   - What MTA should I use on the satellites and how would I configure it?
> >
> > I don't even know if "cluster" is the right word since whenever I google
> > for it, i run into references to LVS and Beowulf clustering which is not
> > what I need.
>
> Im sure you'll get answers for all the MTA's so maybe the best thing is
> just to describe what we do.
>
> I work for an ISP, and we have mail servers supporting several thousand
> users. For this setup we are using qmail + vpopmail + MySQL. We looked at
> LDAP too and concluded it was an ugly beast ;-) Our vpopmail account
> details all live in MySQL - separate read and write database servers help
> spread the load (we replicate between servers). vpopmail uses maildirs by
> default - this means we can NFS mount delivery folders across machines
> without worrying about file-locking, etc. This also means you can spread
> POP3/IMAP traffic across several machines if you want.
>
> We also have three servers dedicated to spam and virus filtering - those
> run daemonized spamd and clamav (we are using a local DNS zone to
> round-robin spamd connections so the load is again spread across all three
> filtering servers).
>
> We are also using squirrelmail and qmailadmin to provide a web mail
> interface and a web postmaster interface for domain accounts.

very cool.
how many servers are you using for this?  do you have a rough ratio for 
users:servers?


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