Re: huge email system

From: Eric W. Bates (ericx_lists_at_vineyard.net)
Date: 11/22/03

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    To: <bv@wjv.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 14:46:53 -0500

    Yah, with spam and viruses, we get more than 100/user/day.

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Bill Vermillion" <bv@wjv.com>
    To: <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org>
    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
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