Re: Mail server

[thing <thing@katrina.thing.dyndns.org>]

Asher Densmore-Lynn wrote:

> Can anyone give me any figures on how much machine I need to serve as 
> a mail server for N users?
>
> I appreciate that every server is unique, but I can't judge these 
> things for the life of me, and if I had baseline numbers I could 
> modify them to suit. \:
>
> I'm looking at a thousand users, but anything would help.
how long is a pice of string? a p120 with 32meg of ram can handle 30 
users with ease.  A p2-350 with 128 meg 200 with ease, depends on the 
use its put to.

I doubt its linear scaling, give us some numbers.

Thing