On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 05:17:26PM -0500, Aaron Wolfe wrote:
> If you want to give your client good advice, you will have to measure
> their mail flow in a meaningful way.
> How many messages per second, minute, hour, day do you need to handle?
> How many concurrent SMTP sessions? Do they even care if a message
> takes 100ms vs 100 seconds to traverse this system?
No, this is largely irrelevant. What matters is the IMAP performance
they expect, that IMAP servers are reasonably CPU and memory intensive.
--
Viktor.
P.S. Morgan Stanley is looking for a New York City based, Senior Unix
system/email administrator to architect and sustain our perimeter email
environment. If you are interested, please drop me a note.
