Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 09:36:25 -0600 (CST) From: Scott Pilz <tech@squid.tznet.com> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@mail.iowna.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mail Server & Adduser Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10101150931350.29922-100000@squid.tznet.com> In-Reply-To: <3A630F2A.A636EE33@mail.iowna.com>
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On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Bill Moran wrote: > Hell, a 486-66 with Ultra-Slow drives would be find for 5 Million users > - if they don't send much mail. More important is going to be how much > mail do these folks really send around?? We're currently looking at a limit of 10 Megs/sending and a quota of around 10-15 megs for POP3 accounts. Generally, most users will average at around 500k or below in their mailbox at any given time. > I did this when we switched from Exchange Server to qmail (God was that > a worthwhile thing to do!) Just exported the Exchange user database into > a comma-delimited file and wrote a perl script to use that file to add > all the users. (and I don't even know perl) > The virtual domain setup for qmail has a single command, vadduser, that > allows you to add a user in 1 step, very nice! I guess I have a few questions on Qmail, it does sound like a better way to go. I'm assuming that this program is free and supports just as many, if not more email accounts than Qpop? It's pretty quick as well? How does it handle quota, is there a way to set the maximum mailbox size? thanks. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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