RE: How to size an email server to handle 5 million emails perday

["Mike Kercher" <mike@xxxxxxxxx>]

On second thought, are mails being delivered locally or are you relaying
to Exchange (or similar)?

Mike
 

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> [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Erick Perez
> Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 9:52 PM
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> Subject:  How to size an email server to handle 5 
> million emails perday
> 
> I have no idea as to how to size an email server. I was 
> approached by a customer that wanted a single server with 
> RAID 1 disks to handle about 5 million emails a day.
> In general terms, what parameters should I take into account 
> to size the hardware specs when the average email is about 
> 10kb, the smalles email is 2kb and the largest email is about 
> 5meg (with attachment)
> 
> thanks,
> 
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