mailserver for 2,500 users on Intel platform

[Matthew D. Fuller]

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.

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



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Matthew Fuller     (MF4839)   |  fullermd at over-yonder.net
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"The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I
      haven't figured out how to light the middle yet"