On Mar 2, 2012, at 10:08 AM, "mail...@securitylabs.it" <mail...@securitylabs.it> wrote:
> Il 02/03/2012 15:54, Reindl Harald ha scritto: >> >> >> Am 02.03.2012 13:19, schrieb Al: >>> I'm curious if anyone uses DBMail with postfix to store mail. >>> If so, what is the performance, could it be ran on >>> the same system as posfix while receiving thousands of emails a day? >> "some thousands of mails" are peanuts >> make sure you have neough RAM and a good innodb-configuration >> > [cut] > >> innodb-settings froma production server with some hundret users >> and currently 50.000 messages with totally 9 GB mailsize >> >> for these settings you need a machine with around 8 GB RAM >> and MySQL >= 5.5.8 >> > > > Just curious. Why use dbmail as storage for mails? > > I run several mail servers with exim + dovecot and Maildir storage. Just for > example one of my server has 2600 mailboxes for a total of 110 Gb of data, > dunno how many mails. It's a Xeon quad core with 2 Gb ram and 2 sata disk in > raid1, load average is never > 2. > > pop3 and imap access, relay with smtp authenticated for users. > > You don't have to backup a big database, just many small files, so you can > restore easy and capillar, how you restore one message or one mailbox with > dbmail? I don't think dbmail is faster or safer than a Maildir setup ora a > Dbox (Dovecot's own high-performance mailbox format) setup. I want a place to store and query email to obtain information from it. The setup you use is the same I have now. Researching options...
