[TriLUG] Need Hardware Recommendation

[Jon Carnes]

On Thu, 2003-04-10 at 14:01, Paul D. Boyle wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> My department is considering doing an upgrade of it's mail server, and
> I am looking for hardware recommendations.  Particularly, vendors who
> sell complete systems and have good Linux support at a reasonable price.

Others have already said Dell.  They work great.  If you are looking for
a local vendor, then check out Stay-Online.  They've built me some
custom systems that worked great and were very inexpensive.


> The box's main tasks will be to run sendmail, pop, imap, and apache which
> provides a web interface to users' mail.  The server usually sends out
> about 100 MB of mail/day.  I don't know the stats for incoming mail.
> Large attachments aren't uncommon but are limited to 5 MB by University
> policy.
> 
You won't need a lot of RAM (unless you have a lot of web sessions), but
you will want a SCSI based RAID as the disk subsystem.  Mail servers do
a lot of disk I/O.

Good Luck - Jon Carnes