Import 100 domains, create 10 inboxes each, at once

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So this is rather sudden…

Basically, I am “in the market” for a self-hosted E-Mail solution to manage an absolute armee of E-Mail inboxes. I can not go in-depth (company things, yknow) but basically there are 100 domains, and each of them has a predefined set of inboxes that also need a calendar.

Thats 1.000 inboxes. o.o

I would like to know:

  1. What bulk-administration tools does MIAB have? I saw domain templates, which will be super useful for what we do.
  2. How scalable is MIAB? Can I scale it between three servers to increase high-availability? As it uses Postgres, and that in return supports clustering, I doubt this should be a big issue - for that part, at least.
  3. Once an inbox quota is full, I would like to flush the mails to an archive box - say once a month or so. Does such a feature exist?

Thank you and kind regards!

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I don’t think any of your questions have a positive answer. Mail-in-a-Box was not designed with such large scale deployments in mind:

  1. Hardly any bulk-administration tools exist as far as I know. Not sure which domain templates you mean?
  2. There is no means to provide High-Availability out of the box. This is a single instance service.
  3. There is not even quota support (yet :wink: , I believe a pull request is in the works), and definitely not some autoflush functionality.
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Ahh, gotcha! Thank you for the insights :slight_smile:
That’s a bit unfortunate but also understandable. MIAB was, from what I can tell, ment for very small deployments (maybe a small company) but I was not entirely sure what it’s poweruser tools would be…so I came to ask.

Maybe in the future it gains these abilities, who knows!

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There are some people here who have larger deployments, hopefully they’ll chip in with their experiences.

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  1. MiaB has an API so creating the 1000 mailboxes should be super simple with a proper bash script.
  2. Single server only.
  3. At this point in time, there is no quota support. So no. You could of course use rsync on a cron job with a script to archive emails automatically on a set schedule then delete them…
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hey, if i needed to do something like this, how would i go about creating a script to create 300 or so inboxes at once instead of manually typing the user and password for each, thanks in advance!