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Date:      Wed, 12 Apr 2000 17:54:33 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
To:        mpd@bluetie.net (Michael Dungan)
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: high volume mail server hardware suggestions
Message-ID:  <200004122154.RAA11001@blackhelicopters.org>
In-Reply-To: <004b01bfa4c7$bd823ee0$c71930d0@hoorj> from Michael Dungan at "Apr 12, 2000  5:40:37 pm"

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My suggestions (keeping in mind that other people will disagree with me):

1) SCSI, hardware RAID
2) /usr/ports/mail/postfix
3) lots and lots and lots of memory

You can handle tens of thousands of users with this setup.

> Does anyone have any suggestions for hardware for running high volume e-mail
> servers with FreeBSD? Should I use a few "large" servers, or several smaller
> ones?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
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