RE: [cobalt-developers] email accounts

["E.B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

AN> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 11:26:51 -0500
AN> From: Anthony Noe


AN> Well if anyone wants to put together some scaled pricing starting at 2000

I'm responding on-list because I think there are a few questions
that would be generally useful to know...

* What sort of spam and/or virus filtering?  These make a huge
  difference in CPU/memory load, and in AV license pricing.

* Straight POP3?  IMAP?  Web-based?  Most of the turnkey Web-
  based email packages seem a bit bloated, meaning more RAM.


AN> email accounts and scale up to 60,000 I can pass on to client.  They are
AN> insisting on price breaks for quantity. Include hardware and software specs,

Even if it means people _raising_ low-end prices? ;-)  Seriously,
2000 accounts probably will get you into bulk pricing with most
places...


AN> setup cost, monthly cost, and related experience with similar jobs.  The
AN> client is a trade union looking to have all members 'plugged in' so they can
AN> recieve trade and political literature.  Accounts will be no larger then
AN> 5Mb, I am pushing for 1Mb.

60,000 * 5 MB = 300 GB, assuming no overcommitment

That's very doable with modern drives.  Reducing the limit
obviously makes it even easier, but the upper limit is by no
means out of range.

Do you have rough bandwidth figures?  "Receiving literature"
could indicate big attachments, which obviously eats more than
periodic 4 kB messages.


AN> If interested, send questions or replies to anthony@xxxxxxxxxxx
AN>
AN> (Hope this isn't breaking any forum-list protocol)

I _think_ it's okay... giving blatant pitches on-list is what
would be a bad thing.  Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.


Eddy
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