On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 04:10:50PM +0545, Suryaman Maharjan wrote: > My college has mail server (sendmail-8.12.5-7) running on RedHat 8.0. The > server is dedicated for staffs only. Now, I am planning to extend the > email facility to students also. By doing so, there will be around 1500 > mailboxes from present 200 mailboxes. For this, I need your valuable > suggestions. > > 1. Can sendmail be implemented for the given number of users or we have to > configure another MTA's like qmail? sendmail has no problem handling a large number of users as long as your system has adequate power. At work we serve about 5,000 employees with a pair of P II/450 systems with 128MB ram each. We crank through roughly 10,000 messages per day. Every now and then we get a global message from our benefits provider that pushes roughly 5,000 messages to us at the same time. Sendmail thrashes for a bit, temporarily rejects the e-mail (well supported in the protocols), and eventually catches up. We've done mailing list processing that has sent out over 40,000 messages at once on a dual P III/500. That slowed it down for a bit but it caught up eventually. It took it about a day, largely because I had not done any sendmail tuning at all. Number of mailboxes doesn't matter. Number and size of messages do. For only 1500 users sending external e-mail, almost any server you through at it that was built in the last 5 years should be able to handle the load. Our servers are about 5 years old and still running Red Hat Linux 6.x! -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
