huge email system

From: David (david_at_madcoders.com)
Date: 11/21/03

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To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org

    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.

    Our current plan was to implement the following.
    2 SMTP only servers.
    3 NFS servers with RAID and SCSI
    2 POP3 servers.

    But that leads us to questions such as -
     - what would be the best way to authenticate?
     - would the NFS servers need gig nic's? or dual bonded 100Mbit cards?
     - what smtp server and what pop3 server to use (we want to use Maildir)
     - what raid level?

    Any suggestions on how to implement an email system to handle the load stated above would be greatly appreciated.

    Thanks
    David

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