[CentOS] How to size an email server to handle 5 million emails per day

Feizhou feizhou at graffiti.net
Fri Aug 24 03:06:54 UTC 2007


Erick Perez wrote:
> I have no idea as to how to size an email server. I was approached by
> a customer that wanted a single server with RAID 1 disks to handle
> about 5 million emails a day.
> In general terms, what parameters should I take into account to size
> the hardware specs when the average email is about 10kb, the smalles
> email is 2kb and the largest email is about 5meg (with attachment)
> 

5 million emails a day? Would your customer be involved in marketing? I 
am not sure I want to give advice that will be used to aid a spammer.




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