[CentOS] Re: Planning Mail Server (with low resources)

Thu Dec 8 00:40:53 UTC 2005
Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com>

On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 19:20 -0500, Bill Diamond wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Feizhou" <feizhou at graffiti.net>
> 
> >> On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 02:58:20PM -0500, Alain Reguera wrote:
> >>
> >>>Thank for clean my doubt about cyrus' storing folders.
> >>>
> >>>Partitioning(in MB):
> >>>/                         1.000
> >>>/boot/                  100
> >>>swap                   512
> >>>/tmp/                   500
> >>>/usr/                    5.000
> >>>/var/                    10.000
> >>>/var/spool/imap/    22.888
> >>
> >>
> >> You still want to have /home on a separated filesystem. You just don't
> >> need it to be big.
> >
> > If he wants system users. In his case where this box sole use is mail 
> > (Alain please confirm) I don't really see a need for a separate /home if 
> > there is nobody to use it.
> 
> If he's going to set this up for IMAP, then certainly putting /home onto a 
> separate drive, not just a separate partition, will be very beneficial. 
> This can enable him to do some pretty cool things, like using spamassassin 
> and procmail to automatically filter out spam into seperate folders.
> 
> On my admittedly small setup, I also have scripts run that look for any 
> messages in the user's home maildir "Missed Spam" folder and "Not Spam" 
> folder.  In the "Missed Spam" folder, I have it automatically rescore the 
> messages using sa-learn.  In the "Not Spam" folder, it's a bit trickier, but 
> using formail along with spamassassin, I can reprocess false positives, 
> strip the headers, and redeliver them appropriately.
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you must have been sound asleep through all of the discussion where he
is using cyrus-imapd which doesn't do maildir, uses it's own method of
delivery (not procmail), it's own filtering (sieve) and doesn't do home
folders and thus your comments - though well intended have already been
considered to be not germane to his setup.

Craig