Re: [gentoo-server] Corporate Mail server HARDWARE question

> On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 22:29 -0600, Kirktis wrote:
>> 125 E-mail accounts is a rather negligible number.
> Depends on the hardware and the users - if they are regularly pushing
> multi-megabyte attachments you may need faster hardware than expected.
> But for normal users a Pentium-2 200 would be fast enough (just don't
> ask how I would know that)
>
>> Processor type doesn't matter, but give it a decent amount of RAM
>> (512; 1GB if you want to do decently-fast spam and AV filtering).
>> Depending on if you plan to go POP or IMAP, I'd recommend doing
>> something like a RAID1 array of 2 or 3 SATA hard drives;
> with more than 2 drives I'd build a RAID5, but that's personal
> preference. Linux software raid is fast enough ... If you add more
> services put mail and rest on different disks if you can.
>
>>  scale the size depending on how much mail you want to let people keep
>> on the server. External USB drives work great for backups (read up on
>> spare devices w/ RAID, if you can get a large enough external). I also
>> like to have my servers send tarballs to each other, and have a
>> central backup server, but that might be overkill for your situation.
> External USB drives can fail in amazing ways :-) But I like your "backup
> strategy"
>
>> If you're looking at buying hardware, I'd recommend something like a
>> Dell SC-series (1425 if you want rack-mounting, they're nice). I find
>> they can do the hardware a lot more cost-effectively then anyone else
>> (even building it) as long as you don't mind using strictly Intel
>> processors.
> Meh, if you build them yourself you can always be a lot cheaper and you
> can customize for your needs - I'm building a fanless box for routing
> purposes right now, nothing you could reasonably buy at these big
> vendors. If you don't have the experience go find a small shop in your
> area, they can offer better service.
>
> Building it myself saves ~30% compared to our "normal" shop, Dell would
> be even more expensive.
>
>> In my experience, I'd stay away from qmail for e-mail purposes, but
>> hey, it's all about freedom.

so, are you "most" people?


> Right. So most people will suggest postfix, then the usual weirdos jump
> up and yell exim ... and then the boss reads the MS propaganda and
> really needs an exchange server ;-)
>
> --
> Stand still, and let the rest of the universe move
>


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