Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 14:46:53 -0500 From: "Eric W. Bates" <ericx_lists@vineyard.net> To: <bv@wjv.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: huge email system Message-ID: <036a01c3b131$617d95c0$3ee380cc@alice> References: <20031121222817.GD19888@phobia.ms> <20031122000737.GA52323@wjv.com>
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Yah, with spam and viruses, we get more than 100/user/day. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Vermillion" <bv@wjv.com> To: <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org> Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 7:07 PM Subject: Re: huge email system > They all laughed on Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 17:28 when David said: > > > Hello - > > > We need to build a stable, redundant, and speedy email system > > that will last for a few years. We need to handle about 500,000 > > emails per day. We have about 30,000 users, so we need a lot of > > storage. > > 30,000 users with only 500,000 emails per day. I say that based on > running a small ISP with a few hundred users and see large mail > volume. All are business accounts. > > I'll let others comment on the rest, but I think 500,000 emails per > day may be underestimating things. That's only 20 emails per user > per day. > > As to last a few years - who knows. In the past year I've seen > such an overall increase in mail volume that now I'm looking to get > new servers with more CPU power. It's not disk size that is the > problem but the in-coming and out-going traffic that is killing the > CPU. > > Bill > -- > Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-isp@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-isp > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-isp-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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