[Dovecot] Re: Apple Mail and too many open files?

[Roger Weeks]

On May 24, 2006, at 10:29 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:

> On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 11:51, Roger Weeks wrote:
>
>> If you're running filesharing of ANY kind on your mail server, you
>> should stop it.  Mail servers should run mail, not run AFP and Samba
>> and other things.
>
> Why?  A robust OS can do many things at once up to its resource
> limits.

Sure it can.  But in my experience, it's bad practice, both in the  
enterprise and in the service provider world.  When your box gets hit  
with a denial of service attack, or 500 users decide to copy the  
latest cool video to their home dir, and it's also your mail and web  
server, all of your services go to hell.

When you have a box dedicated to specific services, you can upgrade  
that box without affecting all of your services.  If the box dies,  
not all of your services die.

--
Roger J. Weeks
Systems & Network Administrator
Mendocino Community Network