shared storage for mails

[Peter Farrow]

Jan Agermose wrote:
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> hi
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> I want to setup a number of mailscanner serveres that log to a shared 
> mysql server and that store the mails (I quarantine both non spam and 
> spam mails) to some sort of shared storage. NFS or some other solutions.
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> I would like to know how others have done this and what kind of 
> performance issues your solutions have had if any.
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> if its not a secret ;-)
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> best regards
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> Jan
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Hi There,

Yes, you start by installing Mailwatch and setup a central Mysql server, 
you can then enable the RPC process within MailWatch to allow messages 
to be released from quarantine from the Mailwatch running on the Mysql 
server.  This is how I run it.
I don't store the messages that are in quarantine centrally, rather I 
store them on the server than scanned them.  This way you can maintain 
state with the message when it is released which minimises delays when 
greylisting is used, rather than tossing them into a central store.

Since this is self scaling, i.e. you use the server that decided to 
quarantine to store the messages, then the system grows by you simpling 
adding machines to cope with your mailscanning load.   So if you have 
enough machines to handle you scanning, then, unless the numbers are 
huge, any reasonable database server hardware should cope.

I use a set up six Athlon 64 FX based machines to scan and a Pentium D 
805 based machine to run the database and it happily copes with millions 
of emails per month no bother at all.

Regards

Pete


 

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