Author: Nico Erfurth Date: To: konrad CC: exim-users Subject: Re: [Exim] Exim for 6M users?
Konrad Michels wrote: > Afternoon folks!
> Just been asked by my CTO to prepare some guidlines for a mail system to
> cope with 6 million users, capable of coping with 2 million simultaneous
> users without blinking too hard.
>
> My initial thoughts are along the lines of splitting the MTA function
> into:
> 1. incoming mail
> 2. mailstore
> 3. outgoing spool
> 4. pop3 access
>
> All the above would live on separate machines/clusters of machines.
>
> Any comments? I know someone on the list had a white paper on a similar
> scenario done with Exim 3.x - if that person would let me know again
> where it is I'd be most appreciative!
