A couple of comments: What is your backup strategy? On the physical hardware side you may wish to look into supporting a redundant disk over RAID for at least the single server approach, to help deal with the inevitable disk crash :). If you want to mirror numbers of other servers for backup purposes you may have problems with synchronisation unless you do it through backup rather than, say, mirroring via your smtp daemon, as imap/pop3 usage will obviously change the contents of each mail area.
You need to choose a mail daemon that can easily farm off subsets of users to seocndary servers, if you wish to go for version 2 scenario. Exim4 seems to me to be a good choice. Rory On 16/04/04, Mariano Wahlmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I need some help, on designing a mail server solution (structure), my > request are: > > -Users 4000+ aprox. with a growth rate of 20/users by month. > -Each user has 15Mb of inbox. > -Accesible by POP3 / IMAP (Only for Webmail who resides in other server) > -Mail list (some of 4000+ users) > > I need a design solution for the server in wich resides mailboxes. > > I have two proposal: > > 1- One big expensive server with 1 SCSI disk, two processors. > 2- Several cheaps servers, dividing mailboxes across servers. -- Rory Campbell-Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <www.campbell-lange.net> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
