From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 26 00:58:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA29417 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 00:58:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from trolph.humber.ac.uk (trolph.humber.ac.uk [194.80.49.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA29341 for ; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 00:57:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from pico (pico.humber.ac.uk [194.80.51.2]) by trolph.humber.ac.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id IAA04381 for ; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 08:51:37 GMT Received: from PICO/SpoolDir by pico (Mercury 1.21); 26 Nov 96 09:56:28 GMT0BST Received: from SpoolDir by PICO (Mercury 1.21); 26 Nov 96 09:56:25 GMT0BST From: "Phil Richardson" Organization: University of Humberside To: questions@FreeBSD.org Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 09:56:15 GMT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: POP Server Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.42) Message-ID: <1322BDF12C6@pico> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk We're currently running a NetWare environment for >12000 users. Were using an SMTP package at the moment - which works, but is becoming very difficult to manage (its across umpteen dozen servers), and is causing some performance degredation since a recent migration to NetWare 4. Using POP3 clients and one POP3 server has been suggested as a viable option. My question is... does anyone out there know how to size this for FreeBSD systems (CPU speed, memory etc). Is anyone out there using POP3 for such a large user base ? Any advice most welcome. Phil Richardson Network Services Manager University of Lincolnshire and Humberside