> As the resident Linux guru, I've just been tasked with costing a webmail setup > for about 600 000 users. They each have 10MiB (small, I know) mailboxes. The > current setup has about 40 million web page accesses per month. > > Has anyone here any experience with this kind of thing? If so, any pointers as > to software and hardware used, and any other advice would be appreciated. While not specifically a costing point, if your users are on your LAN, and expect the quickest possible response times, and if your webmail is a collection of pages, and not a single cgi, I recommend placing the pages of your webmail system on a ramdisk. Barry