Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 10:58:04 -0400 From: Luis Munoz <lem@cantv.net> To: Angelo Nardone <ang@adinet.com.uy>, "freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: e-mail server Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.19990110105804.011d25a0@pop.cantv.net> In-Reply-To: <3693A4E6.631F4F00@adinet.com.uy>
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My advice would be: (1) Stick to FreeBSD no matter what. (2) You need memory. When I do capacity planning for this, I aim for 10% simultaneous users at the box. For something like this, I would use some 256M to have spare legroom. (3) CPU consumption might not be a big issue with today's deals. A PII@256MHz will do very well. (4) If you have the budget, consider a RAID for storing the email. I don't have experience with RAID cards but we use here external RAID systems that look to the server as a single big and fast disk. Keep in mind that disk might very well be your problem. You need a bunch of space AND very good I/O response. (5) The choice of MTA software (sendmail, qmail, etc) is more of a religious choice :) I would go with sendmail and deliver mail to the mailboxes with a patched procmail so that it provides 'maildir' delivery. This makes it easy to share mail stores among machines for redundancy, load balancing, etc. You'll need a POP server that accept this format. It could be a patched POP server from qmail, so that it properly logs to syslog. I don't know about web-mail, so I have no advice about this one. Regards and good luck. -lem At 03:01 PM 06/01/99 -0300, Angelo Nardone wrote: >Could someone help me ? >I need to make an e-mail server for 40.000 users. I'll plan to use >sendmail in a FreeBSD box with web-mail. >I'll very appreciate comments. Like i must use the user account or use a > >database for the mail, how arrange the directories for that amount of >user, quotas, etc. >Thanks. > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > > > ----- (ASP) Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) announced today that the release of its productivity suite, Office 2000, will be delayed until the first quarter of 1901. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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