From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Mar 19 8:36:24 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70F5237B401 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 08:36:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from accounts.amigo.net (mail.amigo.net [209.94.64.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B4C043FAF for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 08:36:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from randys@amigo.net) Received: from stalker.amigo.net (billing.amigo.net [209.94.67.250]) by accounts.amigo.net with esmtp; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 09:36:21 -0700 Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 09:35:36 -0700 (MST) From: Randy Smith X-X-Sender: randy@stalker.amigo.net To: Bill Vermillion Cc: "freebsd-isp@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Maximum recommended user limits on mail server In-Reply-To: <20030319140557.GA16125@wjv.com> Message-ID: <20030319093023.P92133-100000@stalker.amigo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Bill Vermillion wrote: > Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 09:05:57 -0500 > From: Bill Vermillion > To: "freebsd-isp@freebsd.org" > Subject: Maximum recommended user limits on mail server > > A person I know is looking to have a mail server with 10K-15K > accounts and 50 virtual domains. > > He's thinking he needs to go with 'big iron' such as SUN. > > ISTR that I've seen many systems discussed on this list with user > counts far higher than that running on BSD systems. > > Any pointers to references or a quick summary of your server > for systems which match the above would be appreciated. > > Thanks. > > Bill I thought I'd throw in my two cents worth, too. I'm running a pure courier (mail/courier) + mysql setup on FreeBSD w/ 7300+ virtual users. In my case, I have two servers clustered to make spam/virus scanning nicer but you can use one server if you don't scan or use an efficient scanner. -- Randy Smith Amigo.Net Systems Administrator 1-719-589-6100 x 4185 http://www.amigo.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message