On Sun, 4 Nov 2001 01:55, James wrote: > I'm going to be setting up a mail server (Exim + uwimapd + IMP webmail) > that will serve about 300-500 users. > > There will not be a major amount of traffic being put through it and was > wondering if anyone had any cost effective hardware recommendations for > CPU/RAM/HD space?
As someone else already mentioned the hardware requirements vary a lot depending on the details of the use. I know of one site that was using a fully loaded Sun E450 to serve mail for <1000 users (LAN connected and mailing MS-Word document attachments around all day). OTOH I've setup small ISP servers with 300 accounts on machines that make a P-233 look grunty. In terms of bang for buck I once ran a university mail server for 27,000 accounts mostly using POP but also some mutt and elm use. It ran on a machine that was a very old RS/6000 that gave similar performance to my Thinkpad on most benchmarks. Of course that machine didn't perform too well until I replaced the mbox stores with Maildir and used hashing for /etc/passwd... -- http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/projects.html Projects I am working on http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page
