Also adding to this is some stats of the current server
Exim Mail Stats
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At least one address
TOTAL Volume Messages Hosts Delayed Failed
Received 10GB 307328 20573 67312 21.9% 22676
7.4%
Delivered 9795MB 240678 2843
Thats for the SMTP stats. Also attached is a current MRTG graph of the spool
usage from when it was first being monitored (started at 38GB)
Sorry but it's in PNG format. Hope thats not a problem.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul" <paul@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <linux-poweredge@xxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 6:28 PM
Subject: Enterprise Mail Setup
> Hi All,
>
> I am in charge of configuring and ordering a new server for an Enterprise
> mail setup.
> I need some advice and on ideas on what specs to go for and what hardware
> I'd need.
> Below is our current system and it's setup
>
> The current system is a PE2550 with 4 x 36GB U160, 10000rpm in a RAID5
array
> via Perc3Di.
> The array is RAID5. Dual PII 1.3ghz 2GB of ram and the standard dell
onboard
> equipment. Gigabit etc...
>
> The new server Im going to setup needs to be able to handle a huge spool.
> ie: 250GB of storage.
> It currently has 140,000 users approx popping and recieving mail via smtp.
>
> Mail is spooled to /var/spool/mail/x/y/username in a double level hashing
> setup.
>
> Has anybody had experience in this type of setup. I need some specs or at
> least some ideas on server equipment from dell.
>
> The server I was thinking of would be:
>
> Dual Xeon 2.4GHZ, 3GB of DDR RAM. A single 18GB mirror for the OS and
> internal files (logs and db apps etc..) and then a PowerVault for the
> external spool.
> The PowerVault would need to do RAID5 for disk spool of say 250GB. The
> PowerVault would need to be connected via the external SCSI port on the
new
> server.
>
> Any advice or ideas would be grealty appreicated....
>
> Regards,
> Paul
> paul@xxxxxxxxxx
>
>
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