Re: [exim] Hardware for emailserver for 500 to 1000 Users

--On 17 January 2007 09:58:06 +0000 Jeremy Harris <jgh@???> wrote:

> Rainer Sigl wrote:
>> What (PC) hardware (I/O performance, throughput) is to be recommended
>> for a email server with exim4, courier imap, sqwebmail, postgresql for
>> authentication of the virtual users, etc.
>> for about 500 - 1000 users?
>
> An absolute minumum-spec machine, if buying new. Cost on
> order of £300 in the UK at present.

Of course, it depends on how reliable you want it to be, and what kind of
support you need with it. Some PC vendors have 30% DOA rates, others as low
as 1%.

Jeremy's point - I suppose - is that you don't need a terribly fast
machine. However, you might rethink that requirement if the 1000 users keep
an awful lot of email on your IMAP server, and keep themselves logged into
it a lot.



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Ian Eiloart
IT Services, University of Sussex