At 9:45 AM -0500 2001/1/30, Philip Mak wrote:

> When I said 20 MB of messages, I mean that each subscriber gets 20 MB of
> messages. With 3000 users, that's 60 GB of data being shifted.

        How many messages does each user get in a day? What is the
average message size? How many mail messages per day do you expect
to need to be able to send?

        Keep in mind that many mail systems place a limit of no more than
1MB per message, and many sites have policies of allowing user
mailboxes to be no larger than 5MB, 10MB, or maybe 15MB.

> When I'm
> using an underpowered system as a RaQ3 with 32 MB of RAM, I'm worried
> about the load being too much for the machine. (The machine might also
> serve a static website, but it doesn't have to do anything else.)

        From the sound of it, I think the machine you're specifying may
well be under-powered. But I think we need more details before we
can be sure.

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