installing big qmail server ... where to start?

Matthias F. Brandstetter haimat at lame.at
Fri May 6 00:54:31 PDT 2005


thanks for all your info guys!

---------- quoting Matthias F. Brandstetter ----------
> Hi all,
>
> I have to plan and setup a mail solution for about 50.000 users, here
> are some key features requested by our customer:
>
>  - self coded webfrontend w/ webmail and administration (filter, alias
> etc) - 100MB quota per user
>  - autoresponder
>  - about 50.000 user
>  - online backup of data
>  - some more featuers for web frontend
>
> Since I happily use qmail for some other (but smaller) installations, I
> want to try it with qmail here for this project as well. My only problem
> is, I have no clue where to start ... beginning from "should I use 2
> redundant and really strong or some more but cheaper servers?" to "which
> qmail distributions and patches should I use (ldap, mysql, ...)?" and
> "how to store data (mails) and do online backup w/o downtime?".
>
> I know you can't give me _the_ solution for this issue, but I am
> thankful for any hints and internet links on this topic.
>
> I am sure you guys can help me :)
> Greetings and TIA, Matthias

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