one other thing, make sure you have a good disk subsystem. I am a firm
believer that money spent on a good SCSI drive/controller is probably the
best buy you can make for a server (as long as you have enough ram)
David Lang
On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, David Lang wrote:
> I have had a Slackware box (P-200 64MB ram) serving ~200 users with
> ~30K-40K messages per day running for two years with no problems (useing
> sendmail and cyrus) I just recently had to upgrade the memory as it was
> starting to swap a bit.
>
> As for the flavor of linux, pick one that you are comfortable with. My
> personal prefrence is slackware, but if you know redhat you are better
> using it then learning a different distro.
>
> David Lang
>
>
> On Tue, 4 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2000 21:43:57 MET
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: RE: Mail Hosting !
> >
> > >I want to make mail hosting for ~100 Domain on a Linux machine, so I
> >
> > >Which Linux is best for mail hosting ?
> > > RedHat, Slackware, Debian etc. ?
> >
> > RedHat has RPM - an utility used to install programs which
> > can _verify_ if installation is correct - IMO it will help
> > in case some hacker modifies a program to access your host.
> > Maybe Debian has similar one, too (anyone knows?). If you
> > use Slackware, you can only use MD5SUM manually...
> >
> > >Which hardware . . . ?
> > > 486, Pentium (II, III), Alpha etc. ?
> > > 32 Mb, 64 Mb, 128 Mb . . . RAM ?
> > > 4 Gb, 8 Gb, 20 Gb, 36 Gb . . . HDD ?
> >
> > How many connections simultaneously? I suggest 1MB+ RAM
> > per connection. HDD - at least 10MB in /var per mailbox.
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