From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 12 14:54:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 716B937B725 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 14:54:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA11001; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 17:54:33 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mwlucas) From: Michael Lucas Message-Id: <200004122154.RAA11001@blackhelicopters.org> Subject: Re: high volume mail server hardware suggestions In-Reply-To: <004b01bfa4c7$bd823ee0$c71930d0@hoorj> from Michael Dungan at "Apr 12, 2000 5:40:37 pm" To: mpd@bluetie.net (Michael Dungan) Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 17:54:33 -0400 (EDT) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message