[CentOS] e-mail serving

[Les Mikesell]

On 8/3/2011 1:13 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
>
> the HP DL180G6 is a nice box for those requirements.   2U server that
> can be configured with up to 2x6 core Xeon 5600 series processors, and
> up to 96GB ram without using really expensive memory (has 12 memory
> slots, 6 per CPU socket, so 6x8gb gets you 48GB, 12x8gb gets you 96gb),
> and has either 12 x 3.5" SAS/SATA or 25 x 2.5" SAS/SATA hotswap drives.
>
> a million emails/day is an average of 12/second every single second of
> the day.     I'd wager your file system had better be able to handle 3-4
> times that so that bursts are handled gracefully.     I'd definately
> recommend using raid10 with a fair number of disks for this as that's
> lots of small file creates.

Your other problem will be dealing with all the spam you'll get if the 
email addresses are visible anywhere (and maybe even if they aren't).

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com