[TriLUG] status of email

Andrew C. Oliver acoliver at apache.org
Fri Jan 25 17:17:19 EST 2002


Elliot said:
> i can supply ide ribon, mounting brackets, and some ram.

> Who here thinks a P3 with lots of disk space is way too much for an
email
> server?

> When I worked at Duke, a Pentium 90 was handling email for 200 or 300
people
> (as well as the web site) running Slowaris/X86.

> The use of IMAP is the biggest problem.

> If you give 100 people email accounts with 5MB quotas, which is quite
> reasonable for POP3, a very small drive will do just fine.  You will
not
> have 100 people with 5MB in their mailboxes either.  I'd bet most
people, if
> they used it at all, would just be forwarding mail somewhere else 
anyway.

Okay um 8gb is a lot?  Me thinks not.  Secondly, overkill is the shelf
space that this stuff was taking up for me.  Anyhow, I need a RELIABLE
email server.  I've yet to find one.  I'm on yahoo, hotmail, excite,
roadrunner, etc.  They all stink.  If its used for more then this then
fine (as long as the email stays reliable), but if no one else uses it,
I sure as hell will.  Maybe store some isos on
it...cool...don't...cool.  Email!

-Andy
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