Your question is certainly quite vague, but here are a few things to think about..
What mail delivery program are you thinking of using and are you planning on providing pop3 and/or imap service? Imap requires more processing power to display the mail folders, but it depends on the software again. What kind of disk quota are you thinking of setting for your users? Email can take up a lot of space, and outgoing mail also needs to be stored in a queue. In terms of processing/memory requirements, I'd suggest pentium II (400MHz) upwards with at least 512MB ram. Email doesn't really need much processing, but does take surprisingly large amounts of disk space. The disks are probably the limiting factor in what hardware config you are looking at. Hope this helps, Colin Ellis Solution City Ltd http://www.solution-city.com -----Original Message----- From: Asher Densmore-Lynn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 February 2003 16:28 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mail server Can anyone give me any figures on how much machine I need to serve as a mail server for N users? I appreciate that every server is unique, but I can't judge these things for the life of me, and if I had baseline numbers I could modify them to suit. \: I'm looking at a thousand users, but anything would help. -- Asher Densmore-Lynn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]