SUGGESTON FOR: HIGH END MAIL SERVER

[Res]

Hi,

On Sun, 18 Feb 2007, nilesh vaghela wrote:

> I do not have idea, but I know we are goging to start with 3,00,000 user
> initially.
>
> let us say 20 per day per user so 20 x  3,00,000. Aproximate.

Oh only that many messages? OK you could easily get away with something 
like a HP DL380G4, use at least 2G ram, I'd use 2x36G 10K rpm scsi in raid 
1 for OS and server software dir, then 1x72G 10K rpm scsi for /var/log and
1x36G 15K rpm scsi for /var/spool, and 2x300G 10K rpm scsi in raid 1 for 
/home (assuming your mail store is under home)
If you use Qmail your /var/spool becomes  /var/qmail.
If using MailScanner with spam assassin and anti virus, I'd suggest a ram 
drive as well, use in this case 4G ram, with 2G locked for ramdrive.

For 300K messages a day, the above will give you plenty of room to grow
as it will easily process far more than 300K.


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> On 2/18/07, Res <res at ausics.net> wrote:
>> 
>> On Sun, 18 Feb 2007, nilesh vaghela wrote:
>> 
>> > Any thing regarding server or servers.
>> >
>> > If any body can tell me the existing hardware setup for high end mail
>> > server.
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>> How much mail do you envisage processing per day?
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>> > On 2/16/07, Res <res at ausics.net> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On Fri, 16 Feb 2007, Stephen Carville wrote:
>> >>
>> >> >
>> >>
>> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/sysadmin/2007/01/05/fingerprinting-mail-servers.html
>> >>
>> >> Interesting article, but this doesnt represent much of the net as they
>> >> even admit, also certainly doesnt reflect the state of this country.
>> >>
>> >> Those figures are completely flawed, since theres a damn sight more
>> >> than 20K plesk boxes out there alone, not to mention all the other MTAs
>> >> running qmail without plesk and since qmail and vpopmail are superior
>> >> to anything in the hosted domains world, I can't beleive those figures
>> >> for qmail at all, thereby voiding the other results.
>> >>
>> >> The only way they can really do it, is to spend a month testing every
>> >> domain, results without dupe IP's showing close as unique as we
>> >> can really get. If the claim they can test 400K in a couple of hours no
>> >> reason they cant do the lot in a month.  If its too hard, maybe they
>> can
>> >> ask netcraft.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
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>> >> Res
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