Mailserver for ReadyNAS Duo

I've thought about this and sort of wanted it for years (while I had my NV)...

But the Pro desperately needs the drives to sleep; it is a heat-monger. Today was the first day with my Pro running 3 drives all day. I'd closed my home-office door. When I came home, it was HOT in this room... never happened with my NV.

Running a mailserver means the drives will be spinning all the time as they download stuff 24x7. If there were a "freaky way" to somehow carve out an area of 1 drive for the mail, and only keep that drive spinning... I'd be all over it.

zamboni wrote:
I've thought about this and sort of wanted it for years (while I had my NV)... <snip> But the Pro desperately needs the drives to sleep; it is a heat-monger.</snip>

Zamboni I believe, heck I am even sure that there will be an option to NOT have the mail server running, I one chooses not to. So, that is a lame reason for not wanting one.

I for one, would definitely be interested in having the option of using my DUO as a mail server.

THN wrote:
So, that is a lame reason for not wanting one.

You miss my point. I'd like one - but one that is powerful or somehow configurable enough to run without spinning the drives.

Perhaps an option to use a chunk of memory to download the mail messages and "hold them"... and only spin the drives if there is either a power outage and the NAS switches to UPS power, or the memory fills up enough that it needs to write its contents to disk.

Or, perhaps a time-of-day; no need to download (for me) from midnight to 8am...

How about a mail server w/a sleeper, which only wakes up every so often, or when it is called into action?

Any news on the Email server aplication?

any information about my dream ??? :roll:

I have a dream too.