On 11/02/2010 02:42 PM, aio shin wrote:
forwarding my message.
From where ? Your own postfix-users mailing list ?
Weird.
hi, i would like your opinion on what would be the minimum requirement
Completely dependent on your circumstances.
if anyone of you would build a mailserver, postfix + mailstore, basing
on availability of todays hardware,
Postfix doesn't need absurd hardware.
A decent dualcore machine can handle just about anything you can throw
at it - that is, in your situation.
I deduce that your situation is < 1 million message per hour, since you
clearly haven't done this before.
thus expected users may reach the number of up to 2000 and with a current
users dir of 2tb all.
So that's 1GB per user ?
Get 4 or more disk drives and put them in RAID-10 on a hardware controller.
You'll also have to learn a lot about IMAP, maildirs, and message access
in general.
Or if not, can someone point me on how to compute based on given data for a
minimum server specs. Thanks
You say nothing about expected mail loads, peak speed, or spam inspection.
Or network capabilities.
Or availability requirements.
If you are serious about running a mail server for end-users, get at
least 2.
Multiple MXen are a standard feature of SMTP, and a backend mailstore
can be split up by users.
That way, if one goes down, the other will store its half of messages
and queue the rest until you have the second one back up.
--
J.
