mail01# tail -f /var/log/maillog |grep Login Apr 8 22:07:57 mail01 pop3-login: Login: tinamc [66.74.103.232] Apr 8 22:07:57 mail01 pop3-login: Login: rsqm [66.130.185.91]
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This mail server hosted just over 12,000 virtual domains.... handles thoasands of messages per hour. postfix is running on the same system. Its running beautifully too... I've converted over three more systems with almost identical environments...
Ours isn't quite that busy, but yesterday's log:
25# gzcat maillog.0 | grep Login | wc 174342 1569078 13933340
That would be about 7200/hour averaged over the 24 hour day.
That's on a server using Maildir. We have another using mbox, with the same dovecot codebase. It's not as active, but still, I haven't seen any corrupted mbox problems.
mm