SUGGESTON FOR: HIGH END MAIL SERVER

[nilesh vaghela]

Thanx for your suggestion.

It is really value for me.

On 2/18/07, Res <res at ausics.net> wrote:
>
> I think I might have read that wrong, dang, its sunday arvo afterall :)
> if thats 600K msgs a day on average, no sweat the below setup will do it
> as well.
>
> But it would help to know what software you will be running on it
> mbox or maildir, sendmail or qmail (with vpopmail? if not.. use it)
>
>
>
> On Sun, 18 Feb 2007, Res wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> How much mail do you envisage processing per day?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> >
> >>> > 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.
> >>> >>
> >>> >>
> >>> >>
> >>> >> --
> >>> >> Cheers
> >>> >> Res
> >>> >>
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> >>> >>
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