20MB isn;t that much - my work inbox is currently 410MB and the University
of Washington IMAP servers works really well - although I did convert to
using MBX format which speeded things up tremendously.
I'd say that processor and RAM aren't as important as I/O - spread your
mail partition across multiple disks if you can.
Scot
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Leonardo Boselli wrote:
> I have aboput 30 users, that however keep huge mailboxes (I have
> seen more than 20 MB on inbox, and more than 100 in archives).
> I wish to let them use IMAP .
> I have two alternatives: (OS : Linux , MTA: Exim 3.12 or 3.16 )
> 1) using a machine with a single PII 333 and 128 MB RAM
> 2) using a machine with a duel PII266 and 64 MB RAM
> (The only services will be exim, imap, pop, and apache-ssl only for
> a limited service)
> a) What is the better ???? how much ???
> b) what imap server would you suggest ???
>
>
> Leonardo Boselli
> nucleo informatico e telematico
> Dipartimento Ingegneria Civile
> Universita` di Firenze
> V. S. Marta 3 - I-50139 Firenze
> tel +39()0554796431 fax +39()055495333
> http://www.dicea.unifi.it/~leo
>
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