----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael" michael.ross@atice.org To: users@lists.roundcube.net Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 11:44 PM Subject: Re: Question about RoundCubeMail setup
Hi Anthony,
I'm setting up a very specialized email service that will ultimately need to support a few hundred thousand users or more. From looking at the code, I am left wondering if I need to install a separate IMAP server or does RoundCubeMail handle it all? If I do need to install an IMAP server, can anyone suggest one in particular? Right now, I'm seriously looking at Cyrus.
Roundcube is a browser based IMAP client. To use it you need a seperate IMAP server.
Given the system size you want to deploy, I'm not certain what IMAP server to suggest. Hosting a few hundred thousand users will present a fair few issues to be resolved (bandwidth, server specs etc..).
Hi Michael,
Thanks for your quick response. I was suspecting that I might need a backend IMAP server to run with RCM but wanted to make sure it was an absolute requirement. I suppose I should have noticed the word "client" in the description and that would have answered my question. lol
It seems that the server specs and bandwidth aren't going to be that much of a problem as we're going to be using a large datacenter and have plenty of servers setup in clusters. Finding a good, reliable IMAP server is going to be a problem it seems. I'll keep looking and, if anyone happens to have any recommendations, please feel free to forward them my way.
Thanks, Anthony
Hi Michael,
Thanks for your quick response. I was suspecting that I might need a backend IMAP server to run with RCM but wanted to make sure it was an absolute requirement. I suppose I should have noticed the word "client" in the description and that would have answered my question. lol
It seems that the server specs and bandwidth aren't going to be that much of a problem as we're going to be using a large datacenter and have plenty of servers setup in clusters. Finding a good, reliable IMAP server is going to be a problem it seems. I'll keep looking and, if anyone happens to have any recommendations, please feel free to forward them my way.
Thanks, Anthony
Just to throw my hat in here - we use OS X's Postfix/Cyrus mail server (or have for the past 3 years), and while it runs relatively smoothly, it's lack of configuration power can sometimes tie our hands and give us a grand headache. I'm not a strong supporter of it, and have looked for a more robust alternative - especially after fickle corruption from bootable backups, and other joys. The bleeding edge version may have some of these tweaked out, just noting.
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On Feb 20, 2007, at 12:19 PM, Brady J. Frey wrote:
Hi Michael,
Thanks for your quick response. I was suspecting that I might need
a backend IMAP server to run with RCM but wanted to make sure it was an
absolute requirement. I suppose I should have noticed the word "client" in the description and that would have answered my question. lolIt seems that the server specs and bandwidth aren't going to be
that much of a problem as we're going to be using a large datacenter and have
plenty of servers setup in clusters. Finding a good, reliable IMAP server is
going to be a problem it seems. I'll keep looking and, if anyone happens to
have any recommendations, please feel free to forward them my way.Thanks, Anthony
Just to throw my hat in here - we use OS X's Postfix/Cyrus mail
server (or have for the past 3 years), and while it runs relatively
smoothly, it's lack of configuration power can sometimes tie our
hands and give us a grand headache. I'm not a strong supporter of
it, and have looked for a more robust alternative - especially
after fickle corruption from bootable backups, and other joys. The
bleeding edge version may have some of these tweaked out, just noting.
As far as I'm concerned cyrus is kind of the least worst of when
you're talking about ways to implement a large sealed imap server.
There are certainly gotchas, vagaries and things that bite you even
if you know it well. But thats just my opinion.
J.
As far as I'm concerned cyrus is kind of the least worst of when you're talking about ways to implement a large sealed imap server. There are certainly gotchas, vagaries and things that bite you even if you know it well. But thats just my opinion.
J.
It could very well be my implementation on Tiger server... or just my server in general:) Good to know others have had better experiences.
On 20-feb-2007, at 19:34, Brady J. Frey wrote:
As far as I'm concerned cyrus is kind of the least worst of when
you're talking about ways to implement a large sealed imap server.
There are certainly gotchas, vagaries and things that bite you
even if you know it well. But thats just my opinion.It could very well be my implementation on Tiger server... or just
my server in general:) Good to know others have had better
experiences.
I'm running Courier-IMAP for roughly 35000 users, without a problem.
Currently I'm migrating to Dovecot, which also runs OK. In front of
the IMAP servers are a number of load-balanced frontends running
Perdition.
There are a number of IMAP servers which would all work fine in this
setup.
Robin
On 20-Feb-2007, at 10:19, Brady J. Frey wrote:
Thanks for your quick response. I was suspecting that I might need
a backend IMAP server to run with RCM but wanted to make sure it was an
absolute requirement. I suppose I should have noticed the word "client" in the description and that would have answered my question. lolIt seems that the server specs and bandwidth aren't going to be
that much of a problem as we're going to be using a large datacenter and have
plenty of servers setup in clusters. Finding a good, reliable IMAP server is
going to be a problem it seems. I'll keep looking and, if anyone happens to
have any recommendations, please feel free to forward them my way.Just to throw my hat in here - we use OS X's Postfix/Cyrus mail
server (or have for the past 3 years), and while it runs relatively
smoothly, it's lack of configuration power can sometimes tie our
hands and give us a grand headache. I'm not a strong supporter of
it, and have looked for a more robust alternative - especially
after fickle corruption from bootable backups, and other joys. The
bleeding edge version may have some of these tweaked out, just noting.
I think that in terms of large scale solutions, the most popular (and
therefore the most supported) is postfix/mysql. I know Cyrus has
some solutions for large scale configs, but certainly my impression
is that the large installs are dominated by postfix/mysql (or some sql).
On 20-Feb-2007, at 15:23, Lewis Butler wrote:
I think that in terms of large scale solutions, the most popular
(and therefore the most supported) is postfix/mysql.
Err.. That is postfix/Courier-mysql
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