> OK. thanks > > Well, re. concurrent connections, it's hard to tell, but if I guess that > about 5000 users
I just wanted to say that people should not forget that you can't compare corporate usage with things like a university. I usually expect the concurrent user connections to be 50-75% of the user count in corporate environments. > are checking their mail-boxes approximately at the same time ? ... > mailbox sizes are > not specified yet, but I'll guess that 50 Megs should do, because the > users are for the > most part POP3 users. Interesting. Most companies want server based mailboxes to ease things like central backups, webmail access and more. > > thoughts ? I don't think you'll have any problems with one server. Just make sure you have fast disks since IO is most important here. I know people are using cyrus-imapd on RedHat AS cluster but I don't know how well it works with RedHat AS3. Maybe others on the list can tell us more. Simon > > > > Jure Pe_ar wrote: > >>On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 11:56:43 +0200 >>Tom Bryntesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> >>>Hi list. >>> >>>We are looking into the possibility of setting up the Cyrus IMAP >>>Aggregator(http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/ag.html) for a company. They >>> have >>>about 10.000 mail-boxes and a single domain. We are looking for a >>> solution >>> >>>that doesn't >>>create traffic bottle-necks, has 24/7 up-time and hardware fail-over >>>solution. The >>>bandwidth is 100 Mbit. >>> >>> >> >>10.000 mailboxes is not that big number. A single machine could probablay >>handle that. What you're interested in are concurrent connections and >>mailbox sizes. >> >> >> > --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
