* Marcus Andree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-03-18 12:31]: > <snip> > > back in time (but not to long ago), I served 3000 email accounts for > > a Swiss multinational insurance company on a P133 with 32MB RAM. > > > > That is no big deal, however. sendmail and any Unix like system > > can handle that without problem. > Agreed. People nowadays seem to wrongly associate email with > Exchange Server bloatware.
well. it depends a LOT on your users' usage profile. I could not serve our customers from such an old machine. ok, the frontends are still 360MHz Sun netra t1s. But the storage backend is a 14 disk raid5 of 15k RPM U320 drives, plus a 6 disk raid5 of 10k RPM U320 drives - and that is needed. > It's amazing how little knowledge tech workers have about > network protocols... ack ack ack ack ack -- Henning Brauer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] BS Web Services, http://bsws.de Full-Service ISP - Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS Services Dedicated Servers, Rootservers, Application Hosting - Hamburg & Amsterdam