Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED],
i need to deploy mail server. i'll do it with the shupp's toaster. and i'm trying to understand what hardware it will need. it'l have about 200-400 users and most of them will use webmail. please give me some advice on memory it will use and disk/processor too. OS will surely be linux.
If you don't expect the number of users to get much larger, you could get away with very little hardware. Such as a 1 Ghz processor with 256MB of ram. The mail spool (/home/vpopmail/domains) just needs to be as big as you need, and you should be able to calculate that based on the quota you intend to give to each user. The /var/qmail/ partition should be at least one GB for the queue.
Regarding how you setup your disks, I only have a few suggestions:
1. Do NOT put the queue on a software raid. If you really want the queue to be on a raid, make sure it's a fast hardware raid. This will be a quick bottleneck.
2. If you can, keep the the queue and logs on different disks. That will help performance a lot.
Note that if you get a fast hardware raid (more expensive), you can just put everything on the same mounted partition without problems (like 10K+ rpm scsi disks).
Regards,
Bill Shupp
