Hello out there, on http://www.ipswitch.com/products/IMail_Server/sysreq.html IPswitch says: ................. User Processor RAM POP3 IMAP <250 Pentium 100MHz 64 MB 2 GB 6 GB 250- Pentium 200MHz 128 MB 4 GB 12 GB 1,000 1,000- Pentium II 300MHz 256 MB 8 GB 24 GB 10,000 10,000- Pentium II 400MHz 512 MB 16 GB 48 GB 100,000 100,000+ Dual Pentium II+ 1 GB+ 32 GB+ 96 GB+ Note: These requirements are estimates only. Actual requirements and performance vary greatly with the amount and type of e-mail traffic passing through the server, and the resources used by other applications running on the same server ...............
We have about 1500 Users on a Dual Pentium 100, 128 MB RAM. It works hardly, but it's not nice at all. Regards Alex > Ashik Hasim > > > > I have read some posts of imail administrators managing some 20K or > 50K > > users.I am interested on hearing their experience. > > > > I am about to send a proposal to an ISP asking them to outsource > their email > > server and services to me. I have handle Imail succesfully > but I just > manage > > under 1K users -W2K Server, 1024 Kb. Pentium IV 1.7 ghz, 80 > gigs. Raid > > > > > > This ISP carries 15K users/mailboxes, maybe 20K. > > ALL mailboxes will work under one domain and 2 domain aliases > > > > What has been your experience managing 20K or more users? > > What are the Minimum hardware and connections requeriments you > suggest? > > Would you be confident offering this proposal, using IMAIL as the > email > > server to manage 20K? > > > > Any advice to manage the server or servers to handle this? > > > > > > thanks. I appreciate your comments. > > Luis Arango > > > > > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > > to be removed from this list. > > > > An Archive of this list is available at: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > > > > > > > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > to be removed from this list. > > An Archive of this list is available at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
