*I am in the process of choosing a new mail server for our organization. I'm *looking along the lines of a Compaq/HP DL380 G4 with Win 2003 OS, dual 3.2 *Xeon processors, 2 gig of ram, a pair of 36.4 hds in raid 1 for the OS and a *pair of 300 gig hds in raid 1 for IMail. We are a 24x7 - 365day shop with *500 users so I'm wondering if this is overkill or not enough for Imail. I *would not want this setup to lag under load and to last 5 years. Any *ideas???
It's not really overkill, especially if many users are running Webmail. If you are planning on keeping incoming/outgoing mail for long periods of time, the 300 GB could be good; otherwise it's much too much disk space. Disk space is of course cheap, so I suppose it doesn't hurt much if you have the money. If money is an issue, the pair of 36 GB drives are probably enough for everything. And you can go with slightly slower Xeon CPUs (with the same FSB clock) and save some money there. I'd be surprised if you could tell any difference.
BTW try ASSP (assp.sourceforge.net) for anti-spam. It's open-source (as in FREE to use - you can donate to them if you like). I've been using it for a half-dozen clients know for months, and have shut off virtually all of iMail's anti-spam features.
I have no financial interest in the ASSP product, except that my clients pay me to maintain their mail servers, and ASSP saves me lots of time and them lots of money. Takes a few hours to get the hang of it and set it up, but after that maintenance is minimal.
-Paul
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