Thank you for all the invaluable input. Personally I have a great deal of
Linux/freebsd/qmail experience, though my qmail knowledge is quite limited
to the extent of volume email such as this. Linux I think is the forerunner
because I will not be dealing with the project after it is setup and
therefore ease of administration is important.
I have to throw in one more question, albeit somewhat off topic, it has
definite relevance. We're going to put in a raid controller with a hell of a
cache in it (64 mb probably). My question then is, what type of disk
configuration would you propose we need? Space needs are virtually
nonexistant, the machines sole purpose will be mail. Probably 100 mb for the
system itself and then the rest will be for the queue. I'd figure a raid
controller with 64mb cache and a 4.5 gb Cheetah would do the job. Do you
feel that striping and multiple drives would be valuable?
Also, our pipe is not going to be a bottleneck--everything is set up on a
100mbit lan with a T3 connection to the Internet. The t3 runs directy to
level3's backbone in DC which we are a few miles from, so there should be no
significant or relevant latency.
Thanks again,
Cris Daniluk
