Thank you all....:) Its my first mission to setup a public mail server. Expecting your further help.
Once again thank you. On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Victor Duchovni < victor.ducho...@morganstanley.com> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 10:30:36AM +0530, Ranjan wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > This is my first message to the Mailing list. > > > > I am planning to deploy a Public Mail server for our company and chose > > postfix as the MTA. According to the requirement around 25,000 mails are > > handled per day basis. Can anyone suggest me the Hardware requirements > > to setup such a server? > > If this is a gateway that forwards to a separate mail store: > > - 60 MHz Pentium or better > - 128 MB RAM or better > - 256 MB disk space for the Postfix queue or better > > If it is a mailstore running IMAP, then size for that. > > If you can't find 10 year old hardware, modern hardware will handle > approximately 100 times the volume you need, though it is possible > to put the idle cycles to use processing large header/body checks > tables, huge CIDR maps or running very inefficient content filters. > > > -- > Viktor. >
