[Ilugc] mail server architecture
- From: manokaran@xxxxxxxxx (Mano)
- Date: Thu May 18 16:32:21 2006
On 5/18/06, Binand Sethumadhavan <binand@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 18/05/06, Mano <manokaran@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
About 2-3MB of attachments get mailed to all users in our company (150
users) everyday. That uses up about 300-500MB of disk space every day!
Right
In a corporate scenario, anyone planning a mail server deployment
should plan for between 3-10GB of space per user, and 5 times that for
backups. Disk space is cheap.
But why waste space when there is an opportunity to optimize! Even more
important - what if I want all my mails indexed so it is easy to search
(perhaps using lucene). Indexing multiple copies of the same mail again and
again is a monumental waste!
Leaving out arguments about cheap disk space and CPU cycles, it just does
not seem to be an elegant solution. Why is this so? Are there any hurdles to
the one copy per mail approach - that others know of but Zimbra has
apparently missed!
regds,
mano
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