Mail back-up system

[Lowell Gilbert]

Olivier Nicole <on at cs.ait.ac.th> writes:

> > I read the article and the idea is good. But i would like to know what MTA
> > are you using..In the paper you said that at first the email is strored in
> > Mailbox format. Isn`t that a bottleneck. WHat are the loads of the machines=
> 
> Considering we have only 200 users and 3000 messages per day, whatever
> would do.
> 
> MTA is sendmail/milter.
> 
> I plan to change that mailbox thing when I get budget for a new
> machine to play with (I don't want to take the risk to break the
> working configuration).

Mailbox format might not be a bottleneck in this application.  It's
fairly efficient at appending new messages, and that is the only
common operation being performed on these backup mail spools.