Richard L. Hamilton wrote: >> A single /var/mail doesn't work well for 10,000 users >> either. When you >> start getting into that scale of service >> provisioning, you might look at >> how the big boys do it... Apple, Verizon, Google, >> Amazon, etc. You >> should also look at e-mail systems designed to scale >> to large numbers of >> users >> which implement limits without resorting to file >> system quotas. Such >> e-mail systems actually tell users that their mailbox >> is too full rather >> than >> just failing to deliver mail. So please, when we >> start having this >> conversation >> again, lets leave /var/mail out. >> > > I'm not recommending such a configuration; I quite agree that it is neither > scalable nor robust. >
I was going to post some history of scaling mail, but I blogged it instead. http://blogs.sun.com/relling/entry/on_var_mail_and_quotas -- richard _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
