[34239] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Scalable Mail solution with NAS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Lyall)
Wed Jan 31 16:57:55 2001
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 10:55:08 +1300 (NZDT)
From: Simon Lyall <simon.lyall@ihug.co.nz>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
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On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, J.D. Falk wrote:
> On 01/31/01, Mike Johnson <mike.johnson@isunnetworks.com> wrote:
>
> > I am wondering if this belongs on a networks list, though...
>
> There's the isp-emailservers list (at isp-emailservers.com,
> even), but the clues are few and far between. It'd be nice
> if some actual content (as opposed to "please help me I've
> never used the Internet before and now I'm an ISP" questions)
> could show up there, though.
Earthlink have a little paper here:
http://www.earthlink.com/about/papers/mailarch.html
and I half remember seeing a couple of other papers somewhere else (try
LISA archives under usenix.org).
The system we use is based on a few ideas from this paper. Once you start
splitting between multiple servers it's pretty easy to get something
that'll scale to over a million mailboxes.
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