[CentOS] Re: Planning Mail Server (with low resources)
Feizhou
feizhou at graffiti.net
Wed Dec 7 13:31:02 UTC 2005
Alain Reguera wrote:
> Restructuring setup
> ---------------------------------
> Hardware:
> Pentium III 1.4Ghz
> 256 RAM
> 40 GB HD-IDE
>
> Soft:
> CentOS 4.2
> Postfix
> Cyrus-IMAPd
>
> Partitioning(in MB):
> / 8.000
> /boot/ 100
> swap 512
> /home/ 15.888
> /tmp/ 500
> /var/spool/imap/ 15.000
>
> would be this a candidate setup?
NO.
1) Minor: Why do you want a large /home?
Is this email only or do you plan to let users create their own webpage
or something?
2) Major: No /var partition which means it comes under /. I suggest
separating /var from / since /var will hold your mail queue. If
possible, get / to the state where it is mounted read only.
>
> I'm planning use quota (as suggested in this list) on cyrus level,
> giving the students the possibility of free their inbox when it is
> over quota, and let the messages that are in queue (recently) get into
> the inbox when the space is freed.
Remember to make overquota a temp/soft failure then if that is what you
want.
>
> In the future, think the possibility of use postgresql (and some php
> application) to manage users accounts.
I'd suggest doing that now. Migrating mailboxes to a new system is not fun.
>
> Like the beginning, it'll be appreciated any suggestion about.
Get another disk if the mails are important to you.
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