On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Stan Hoeppner <s...@hardwarefreak.com> wrote: > ahmad riza h nst put forth on 11/7/2010 11:55 PM: >> hello, >> >> currently i am new to postfix and at the moment i have a task to setup >> mail server with postfix, dovecot and webmin. >> this system would host hundreds of virtual domains, so thousands of >> virtual emails was expected. > > "Thousands" of email users? How many thousands? Are you planning on > deploying the entire solution on a single physical server, or do you > plan to build a server cluster for greater performance and reliability?
i think it would reach to 12 thousands or less. yes we plan to do it in one server but just for mailboxes only (pop3, imap, webmail), we have another servers for the mx. > >> postfix : 2.6.7 >> dovecot: 2.0.6 >> centos 5.x >> webmin > > According to your blog, you already have user account information in a > mysql database. I would suggest you configure Postfix and Dovecot to > use the existing database for authentication. the problem is webmin + virtualmin won't do it with mysql db virtual user, or maybe i'm wrong ? http://www.virtualmin.com/node/7616 > >> since i don't have any experience in postfix then i hope somebody in >> this list would like to share their experiences regarding postfix and >> virtual domain with thousands unix user. >> >> or maybe any links would be good :) > > What hardware do you plan to deploy at this point in time for this > solution? I.e. number of CPUs/cores, amount of RAM, type and number of > RAID disk array, etc. > we would do it with hp dl180 g6 (1 xeon quad core, raid1, 4G Ram) > -- > Stan > -- http://blog.rizahnst.org
