mailserver for 2,500 users on Intel platform

[Ted Cabeen]

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In message <20030503010017.GF27042 at over-yonder.net>, "Matthew D. Fuller" writes
:
>On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 09:34:34AM -0700 I heard the voice of
>Ted Cabeen, and lo! it spake thus:
>> 
>> 2500 users is nothing.  You could do that on any machine bigger than
>> 500Mhz with 256MB of memory without any problems.  Disk should be how
>> ever much you think you'll need.  On average, each user will eat up
>> about 5MB of disk space with POP accounts, and somewhat more with
>> IMAP.
>
>You're crazy   8-}
>
>I've run that many users on a Pentium Pro 180 with 128 megs of RAM, on a
>4 gig disk.

Yeah, I was erring on the side of caution.  With mail loads increasing every 
month, you want to plan for some growth.  :)

>Of course, it was pretty full on disk space, but it was loafing along on
>the rest.

That sounds about right.  :)

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Ted Cabeen           http://www.pobox.com/~secabeen            ted at impulse.net 
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"Human kind cannot bear very much reality."-T.S.Eliot        cabeen at netcom.com


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