huge email system

[Eric W. Bates]

Yah, with spam and viruses, we get more than 100/user/day.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Vermillion" <bv at wjv.com>
To: <freebsd-isp at freebsd.org>
Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 7:07 PM
Subject: Re: huge email system


> They all laughed on Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 17:28  when David said:
>  
> > Hello -
> 
> > We need to build a stable, redundant, and speedy email system
> > that will last for a few years. We need to handle about 500,000
> > emails per day. We have about 30,000 users, so we need a lot of
> > storage.
> 
> 30,000 users with only 500,000 emails per day.  I say that based on
> running a small ISP with a few hundred users and see large mail
> volume.  All are business accounts.  
> 
> I'll let others comment on the rest, but I think 500,000 emails per
> day may be underestimating things.  That's only 20 emails per user
> per day.  
> 
> As to last a few years - who knows.  In the past year I've seen
> such an overall increase in mail volume that now I'm looking to get
> new servers with more CPU power.  It's not disk size that is the
> problem but the in-coming and out-going traffic that is killing the
> CPU.
> 
> Bill
> -- 
> Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com
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