[Asterisk-Users] "Defragmenting" mailboxes

[Andrew Kohlsmith]

> That's very close to my suggestion.  It is scalable but
> only to a point.  As soon as you are so big as to require
> multiple Asterisks servers you will have the same problem
> as the guys who run large e-mail servers.  Te first step
> would be to NFS mount the mail dir from an NFS server
> running some kind of RAID.  Don't laugh.  Around here they
> have 5,000 voicemail boxes with 25MB limits on each.

I think I'd run CODA or InterMezzo or some other DFS before I hit that 
point.

> The current pthreads based locks don't work across mutiple
> servers so something needs to be done once you move out of
> the small office environment. The maildir design would work
> for up to a few thousand users

... it's working for 15000 mail accounts on a busy little dialup ISP...  
that is over NFS though.

Regards,
Andrew