Evren Yurtesen wrote:
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:
On May 23, 2006, at 1:35 AM, Evren Yurtesen wrote:
Vulpes Velox wrote:
On Mon, 22 May 2006 11:54:02 -0500
Kevin Kinsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
At 07:17 AM 5/22/2006, Evren Yurtesen wrote:
Hello,
I was wondering how does services like yahoo mail is storing
e-mails. Somehow the smtp server should know where to deliver
the mail inside the system and webmail should know from which
server to read it from.
Does anybody have any practical ideas about how it is done?
Derek Ragona wrote:
> If you are using sendmail, as most FreeBSD users are, you can
> check the sendmail.org site for information on mail handling.
> There are a number of methods that depend on your setup.
>
Well, it's pretty obvious that they aren't using a stock
SendMail:
# telnet mx2.mail.yahoo.com 25
Trying 67.28.113.72...
Connected to mx2.mail.yahoo.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 mta309.mail.re4.yahoo.com ESMTP YSmtp service ready
Short of finding an article written by someone 'in the know',
or an answer for someone like that, we can only guess. I'd
probably start with guessing a big DB on a large SAN;
which pretty much negates the "which server to read from"
question (up to a point). Everything else is pretty
academic. SMTP, IMAP, POP.
Maildir makes it easy to distribute it across multiple machines as
well.
What do you mean exactly? distributing 1 user's mails into seperate
machines? I didnt understand how Maildir helps to this actually.
I am not sure anyone was talking about distributing 1 person's mail
across separate machines. The discussion seemed to be how to handle
large amounts of mail spread out across machines, which maildir helps
with as you can have one or more file servers and lots of consumers
(imap/pop) and deliverers (mta) accessing those maildirs on your file
servers. Combine with a backend database of some sort (we use an
ldap db that includes the path for a specific accounts mail) and voilá.
Chad
Ah sorry, I didnt think it that way for a moment. I thought you meant
Maildir
stores mails in seperate files compred to mbox format used by sendmail
so...anyhow
my mistake :) But it is possible to make changes to sendmail so that it
will store to different folders also.
I think the conclusion is a database, multiple smtp servers querying
database
to see where to forward received e-mails, multiple pop3/imap servers
querying
database to see from where to read the e-mails and multiple storage
machines.
This way it can scale to an unlimited size.
So it requires a lot of coding :)
Not really, we have a large system which required little coding except
for script tools.
We have two FreeBSD servers as public gateways running Sendmail +
Milter-Ahead + MailScanner. These 'gateways' scan mail for viruses and
then forward the delivery on to three toasters which are FreeBSD servers
running qmail + vpopmail + Spamd + SquirrelMail.
The toasters each mount an NFS share from a Sun Enterprise to store the
mail. Vpopmail answers the validation reqests from Milter-Ahead and gets
all it's storage/authentication information such as Maildir delivery,
forwarding, SpamAssassin settings, etc from a common MySQL DB.
All very stock and the system can grow as large as the mail store server
allows. When it is incapable, we will replace it with a larger machine.
Just because I know you will ask, the mail store server is raid5, dual
power supply, dual nic. The gateways, toasters, and mail store all
communicate via a private network which is 1gb.
It has proven very robust during the past two years.
DAve
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