Am 2009-11-27 10:40:27, schrieb Andy Smith:
> Hi,
>
> what are people doing for setting mailbox quotas on systems with
> very large numbers of mailboxes (hundreds of thousands)? I would
> assume UNIX filesystem quotas aren't practicle as you´d need to have
> all of those users in /etc/passwd or your directory service which I
> think would kill performance. Anyone with any experience in this like
> to share their thoughts??
I can not believe, you have a singel server with "hundreds of thousands"
mailboxes, because I know some VERY BIG providers which hit the limit
with arround 50-60.000 Mailboxes per physicaly server.
I have a very fast Sun Machine and run into trouble with 20.000 accounts
if they access the mailboxes between 08:00 and 17:00. And of course, I
am using 4 Income-MTA-Proxys which distribute the messages to 86 mailbox
servers.
However, my quotas are in the PostgreSQL database and I can change it
with some clicks in less then 10 seconds.
Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening
Michelle Konzack
Systemadministrator
Tamay Dogan Network
Debian GNU/Linux Consultant
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