From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Nov 5 1:40:39 2002 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 C22A937B401 for ; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 01:40:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [207.200.153.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65F8D43E6E for ; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 01:40:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tom@sdf.com) Received: from tom (helo=localhost) by misery.sdf.com with local-esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 188z9m-0004jT-00; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 00:33:54 -0800 Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 00:33:41 -0800 (PST) From: Tom Samplonius To: Scott Gerhardt Cc: nbari@unixmexico.com, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: qmail + 1 million users In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Scott Gerhardt wrote: > Hmm, 1,000,000 users with 2MB quota each will require 2TB of disk space > minimum! You will need an external fiber channel or similar storage array. It has been a long time since I've seen a mail server with enough storage to handle each mailbox at 100% capacity. Most people check their mail regularly, and have empty boxes. In fact, on one mail server I've seen, the total daily delivered volume of e-mail (7GB) exceeds the total free space (5GB), but yet it never fills up, as most of are checking their e-mail constantly, so the number of e-mails in and out is roughly the same. Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message