On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Laurent Baillet wrote:
> >exim is, IMHO not the problem.
> >You have to find your favorit popper or imap daemon.
>
> the system will be a webmail (IMP) dealing with something
> like 500000 users.
>
> our actual choice would be exim+cyrus but the trouble is to
> set hash spool with deliver from cyrus
Cyrus actually does its own performance enhancements - it stores the
mail in its own proprietary format, in its own files - I think
its not unlike maildir. Users do not have traditional mailspools, so
there is no need to do your own hashing or directories..
>
> but we evaluate qmail+imap uw too (using mysql patches
> for those : the path to maiboxes is stored in databases)
>
> so a hash spool on 2 levels is the only way to
> obtain good seek performances.
>
> >qpopper supports hash's spool to level 2
> >(/var/spool/a/b/abuser) which is enough when you decide to take a
> >filesystem allowing many files per directory.
> >i would prefere this way to have a better overview...
>
> there won't be pop installed
> i don't even knew that qpopper supported that. it's a good feature.
>
> >which plattform are you working on?
>
> the exact type of servers has not been done yet, but it will be Sun
> servers, using solaris, for sure :)
>
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