Deamos's Journal: Ask the dot..

Here's a new one.

I've been put on a project to replace our slowly crumbling virtual mail system.

We are looking to migrate a massive amount of users 20,000-30,000 plus something like seven thousand domain names.

Oh and the system needs to be scaleable, so in two years it needs to be able to handle double the amount of users and such.

So what I need is advice on building large scale mail systems; I have three other people to work with all of which are bright but none of us have experience building a system on this scale.

At this time we're looking at Exim to be run on either FreeBSD / Linux. Qmail hasn't been entirely ruled out but we would rather like not to go that route since the base system hasn't been updated in a long time.

So if anyone has any experience with this I'd greatly appreciate any advice you can give. No changing jobs isn't an option. :)

Cold Spark

[rdewald]

ColdSpark [coldspark.com], a mail transport *router.* I know one of the major coders, it's awesome.