Planning Mail Server (with low resources)

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On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 22:37, Robin Mordasiewicz wrote:

> > Speaking of future disk expansions.  It might be smart move to place all file 
> > systems (or at least /var/spool/imap) under LVM.  That way he can simply add 
> > new disks into volume group, assign additional space to logical volume where 
> > /var/spool/imap file system resides, and resize file system to the new size 
> > of logical volume.  The only downtime would be to physically attach new 
> > disk(s).  Everything after that can be performed while the system is up and 
> > running (and users are using it).
> 
> I agree. I would use openfiler and have two front end servers mounting the 
> disk over NFS. This means you will have to run courier imap.

No, it just means you need to use maildir format which qmail uses
natively and the other transports can do via procmail.   Dovecot
can use it on the imap side.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
   lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx



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