I'm going to guess that DBMail isn't yet ready for prime-time. It
doesn't appear to have the benefit (yet) of wide-spread exposure to
Enterprise-scale environments.
It's an approach I had been considering, as a possible solution to the
many issues I find myself facing with a "standard" confi
Forrest,
(Long reply)
I am also a new dbmail user and testing options. We are
definitely moving forward with an implementation of dbmail
with similar requirements. We are just now setting up our
test environment.
Basically my major concerns with a solution are fail over
and scalability. We explor
We also want to take the Google approach, where use of commodity
hardware could be a win-win situation.
When you crunch the numbers, you don't need the latest-and-greatest
processor -- you need ones that will do an adequate job, at the right
price, from which you can scale at low cost. Simpl
I have dbmail setup for 1800 users.
Mandrake 9.2
Dbmail 1.2 (latest release)
Postfix
Amavis-new
Fprot antivirus
Horde imp webmail
Mysql 4 with innodb
Running on a dell 6400 dual xeon 2.0 ghz 4gig/ram and dual raid controller
4 40gig drives as raid 5 for linux
4 40gig drives as raid 5 for mysql an
Hello Forrest,
FA> Frankly, I'm also concerned about MySQL's performance under such
FA> potentially harsh conditions. That remains to be seen.
MySQL isn't really the limitation - ask the people at YAHOO, who happily put
more load on MySQL than dbmail for a hundred thousand workers. The new
O'Reil
I have been working on a little PERL project that takes from a list of
550,000 email addresses and generates an SQL statement foreach to create
an entry into a DbMail MySQL database. This will be my new test
database. Too bad numerous things arose in August and I have had to put
dev resources
> I have used DbMail on both pgsql and mysql with much the same results
> except as the user numbers grow mysql begins to outperform pgsql in
> speed. That could be me. I am not as adept with PostgreSQL. One thing is
> for sure, whatever lags there may be, pgsql always holds up and all
> queue
Good point.
- Original Message -
From: "Thomas Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "DBMail mailinglist"
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 2:45 AM
Subject: Re: [Dbmail] New user, questions, scalability, etc.
> > I have used DbMail on both pgsql and mysql with much the same results
> > except
Thomas Mueller wrote:
I have used DbMail on both pgsql and mysql with much the same results
except as the user numbers grow mysql begins to outperform pgsql in
speed. That could be me. I am not as adept with PostgreSQL. One thing is
for sure, whatever lags there may be, pgsql always holds up a
>
> Hello,
>
> Can anybody recommend a php base web interface to dbmail???
> I use http://www.squirrelmail.org its work great, but I know there are
> someone who has made a webinterface that looks directly in the MySQL
> database if you use that.
>
> // OuT
> // Mikael Syska
>
>
> Best Regard
Thomas Mueller wrote:
>> I have used DbMail on both pgsql and mysql with much the same results
>> except as the user numbers grow mysql begins to outperform pgsql in
>> speed. That could be me. I am not as adept with PostgreSQL. One
>> thing is for sure, whatever lags there may be, pgsql always hol
I was wondering where things were on replacing auto
incrementing message id's with a GUID [unique_id].
I have been reading through the archives and found a
thread from a year ago that seems to touch on it.
[Dbmail] MySQL Load Balancing & Failover
http://tinyurl.com/3m6mf
The advantage of course
It sounds like what we need to happen here is to fine-tune a DBMail
configuration on a private LAN (somewhat easy to do, if you have spare
hardware) and pound it with all sorts of traffic, tuning as necessary.
Apart from real-world use, this is the only way we're going to break
beyond the hypo
> > The problem with PostgreSQL are missing transactions in dbmail.
> > Because of that AutoCommit is used leading to 11 single transactions
> > because of one inserted message.
>
> Very very true. If we implemented transactions for at least message
> delivery (for begginers), we'd get a huge pe
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