From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 22 11:44:00 2003 Return-Path: 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 64FCA16A4CE for ; Sat, 22 Nov 2003 11:44:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.vineyard.net (k1.vineyard.net [204.17.195.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E86643FBF for ; Sat, 22 Nov 2003 11:43:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ericx_lists@vineyard.net) Received: from localhost (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by mail.vineyard.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27D0C93D18; Sat, 22 Nov 2003 14:43:13 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail.vineyard.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (king1.vineyard.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 69594-04; Sat, 22 Nov 2003 14:43:12 -0500 (EST) Received: from alice (alice.ericx.net [204.128.227.62]) by mail.vineyard.net (Postfix) with SMTP id D757D93D17; Sat, 22 Nov 2003 14:43:12 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <036a01c3b131$617d95c0$3ee380cc@alice> From: "Eric W. Bates" To: References: <20031121222817.GD19888@phobia.ms> <20031122000737.GA52323@wjv.com> Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 14:46:53 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS at Vineyard.NET cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: huge email system X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 19:44:00 -0000 Yah, with spam and viruses, we get more than 100/user/day. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Vermillion" To: 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" >