"Stephen F. Bosch" wrote:
> > to 20 remote/local delivery sessions. Sure, it may not blast mail out like
> > a high end mailing list server, but it'll be more functional than, say,
> > SENDMAIL. ;P The limit is probably more memory vs. swap speed rather than
> > CPU power.
>
> I'm not denying that the machine is up to it, I just think that
> *configuring* a machine like that is absolute murder, having tried it
> myself. Compiles take a couple of eternities, opening files in editors
> is slow... it's just general hell.
>
> It's not hard to find an old Pentium that would be easier to set up to
> handle mail... =)
>
> -Stephen-
I adgree. You could easily run qmail on a small machine (486/66 with 8
megs) to do 10,000 to 30,000 messages a day which will be fine for less
then 100 users.
If you keep the config file simple and you compiles on a fast machine,
you should haven't any problems, and you won't lose your mind. In most
cases, once qmail is setup and doing what you need it to do, it's quite
normal to only add new users and edit .qmail files which can be done
with echo and a user add script.
Logging is another story. When you go to load that 1 meg log file into
vi, it may take a while, but if you do reading and storeage of logs on,
this too can be advoided.
So, the only real limiting factor of this small machine is the 8 megs
and that mainly for things other then qmail. I would at least put 32
megs in the machine just to keep things easy on the machine.
-Steven Rice
