Storage managment method and system for large capacity electronic mail

Abstract

The present invention discloses a storage management method of high-capacity electronic mail and its system. Said system includes mail server, mail management module connected with the mail server and storage proxy module. Besides, said invention also provides its storage management method, including the steps of centrally-managing physical storage information, user information and mail information, analyzing storage information, storing mail, delivering mail and regulating mail distribution, etc. Said invention can raise the utilization rate of whole system resource greatly.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to a large-capacity email storage management system and method. In particular, it relates to an e-mail storage management system including a plurality of mail server modules and a plurality of physical storages and a corresponding method. Background technique [0002] Email has been one of the most used services on the Internet since its invention. People increasingly rely on email to communicate. In recent years, with the development of multimedia email technology, people have been able to realize visual and audible interactive communication anytime and anywhere through the information interaction of multimedia content on mobile terminals. This interactive communication requires large-capacity email System support. [0003] For large-capacity commercial email services (supporting multimedia emails and general emails), due to the large number of email clients, the requirements for the reliability and scalability of email servic...

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Problems solved by technology

The Mailbox method refers to using the ~user / Mailbox method to replace the UNIX default / var / spool or / var / spool / mail storage method. If this method is used, all mails of each mail client are stored in their own home directory. In a file named Mailbox file, however, when using the MailBox method, because all mails are stored in the same file, locks must be locked for mail operations to ensure that there is no access conflict, which makes it unsuitable for NFS storage file sharing

[0007] Qmail proposes a new and more reliable email storage method MailDir. When using this storage method, each email of each email client is stored separately in its own exclusive email directory. At the same time, the Maildir storage method is comparable to the traditional Mailbox method in terms of speed. However, the MailDir method is still insufficient in mail management, such as the lack of balanced storage among multiple servers, and the lack of unified management of mail. It is stored in its own directory, and the mail system is difficult to monitor, etc.

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