why not OS X?

[Robert Brandtjen]

On Tuesday 04 June 2002 07:12 pm, Brian Watson wrote:
> Actually, I was running that on my YDL box, and I think you were the
> one to reply "you better catch it before it gets away" to my I've got
> qpopper running message.  The University of Illinois uses a huge Sun
> cluster for their e-mail and news servers.  Each student and faculty
> member gets his own e-mail account and shell access.  They have over
> 50,000 accounts to deal with on multiple machines, and Sun offers the
> best solution vs support.

yes - I know there are those who use Sun servers for mail, however, if yo=
u=20
check the qpopper archives, you will see quite a few have built lil linux=
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clusters to handle considerably more then 50,000 accounts (250,000 was on=
e I=20
remember) at a fraction of the cost of a Sun Server. I believe 5 intel bo=
xen=20
was about the order of the day.

That being said - if the machine in question has the pipes to handle the=20
bandwidth - i see no reason why a 2 to 4 processor / 2 to 4 gig linux box=
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couldn't handle it.
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 Robert Brandtjen
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