[CentOS] Re: Planning Mail Server (with low resources)
Feizhou
feizhou at graffiti.net
Wed Dec 7 18:48:49 UTC 2005
Alain Reguera wrote:
>>1) Minor: Why do you want a large /home?
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> To let the users organise their mails in folders (using squirrelmail
> or maybe another webmail client). If there are other ways of do this I
> would be very pleased to know them.
Oh. Their mail folders will be organized through IMAP and therefore
through cyrus-imap. If that is all, then don't make a separate /home.
Users will create their folders through cyrus in /var/spool/imap.
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>>Remember to make overquota a temp/soft failure then if that is what you
>>want.
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> sorry about my ignorance, but what does it (temp/soft failure) mean.
Sorry, temp = temporary or soft and hard means permanent failure. Soft
fail means try again. Hard fail means don't bother trying.
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> Restructuring setup
> ----------------------------------
> Hardware:
> Pentium III 1.4Ghz
> 256 RAM
> 40 GB HD-IDE
>
> Soft:
> CentOS 4.2
> Postfix
> Cyrus-IMAPd
>
> Partitioning(in MB):
> / 1.000
> /boot/ 100
> swap 512
> /home/ 15.888
> /tmp/ 500
> /var/ 7.000
> /var/spool/imap/ 15.000
>
> What do you think 'bout this?
Given above, I suggest 10.000 for /var and a 5.000 /usr and what is left
from /home going to /var/spool/imap.
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> I agree with you that is needed more memory, and more disk space, I'll
> work to upgrade the hardware.
Memory, I don't know...from what I have gathered, 256MB should be ok.
Disks, I would suggest at least two disks and running them mirrored so
that you don't lose everything if a disk should die.
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> Would be recommended to separate /var/logs/ and /var/spool/mqueue/ in
> different partitions too? or is enough with separate only /var/.
I think a 10GB /var should be sufficient. With 2k users, you should not
get large compressed logs.
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