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A large-scale e-mail service provider requests a highly scalable and available e-mail system to accommodate the increasing volume of e-mail traffic as well as the increasing number of e-mail users. To reduce the system development and maintenance cost, it is requested to make the system modular using off-the-shelf components. In this paper, we propose a cluster-based e-mail system architecture to achieve the goals of high scalability and availability, and low development and maintenance cost. We adopt the internal structure of a typical Internet e-mail system for a single server, called the MTA-MDA structure, to the proposed system architecture for the low cost requirements. We have implemented four different system configurations with the MTA-MDA structure and compare their performances. Experimental results show that the proposed system architecture achieves all the design objectives.
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Jeun, WC., Kee, YS., Kim, JS., Ha, S. (2003). A High Performance and Low Cost Cluster-Based E-mail System. In: Malyshkin, V.E. (eds) Parallel Computing Technologies. PaCT 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2763. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45145-7_44
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