Re: Hardware & bandwidth requirements

Subject: Re: Hardware & bandwidth requirements
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Date: Thu Dec 23 1999 - 11:02:44 CST

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just another view.
we serve about 6100+ users
current USED mail spool is 1.8G
current mail output averages 36kb/s
current mail input averages 15.5kb/s
(193kB/s being a T1, 16kB/s being a 128K ISDN line))

divide that by about 12 for your 500 users?

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On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Brian Elfert wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Thomas Kuehne wrote:
>
> > I am about to set up an postfix system for around 500 users. Anybody can
> > give me a rough estimation on necessary hard-disk size (9 GB, 50 GB, 500
> > GB, ...?) and on bandwidth (static leased line).
>
> I have over 2000 mail accounts, and my mail spool is a 2GB partition.
>
> Bandwidth I have no idea on, but my dozen Unix machines together use a
> few hundred kilobits at most.
>
> Brian
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