Re: [Exim] Exim for 6M users?

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Author: Konrad Michels
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To: Nico Erfurth
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Exim for 6M users?
Thanks Nico!

On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 15:59, Nico Erfurth wrote:
> 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!
>
> This one was Yann Golanski, his great paper is here:
> http://gridlock.york.ac.uk/~yann/lsm.pdf
>
>
> Nico

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