Re: [cobalt-developers] email accounts

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"E.B. Dreger" wrote:

> Pfft.  I set up Postfix/FreeBSD on a PIII/550.  It's currently
> only handling a couple thousand accounts, but never breaks a
> sweat on CPU.  Of course, it has 2 GB of RAM, and not running
> Sendmail helps _immensely_.
> 
> We've also set up small offices with Pentium I systems.  It all
> depends on someone's needs... underpowered systems are bad, but
> so is being wasteful.

You're right of course, Eddy.  A few years ago, when I actually thought
I could turn a dollar competing with Critical Path on Enterprise Email,
we used to just rent $100/month servers from cheap rental-server houses,
and we'd configure them and manage them as mail servers; a complete
discrete server for each client.  Of course we didn't have to filter out
as much spam and virii in those days.

And we've grown a lot since then <smile>.

Jeff
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