Sizing the hardware of your e-mail server
When choosing a computer to use as an e-mail server, a lot of people have misconceptions regarding the hardware required to perform this task well. The constantly increasing performance of computers seems to lead people into thinking that they really need the latest and most buzzword-compliant stuff, even if they only want to handle a few thousand messages per day.
Although a certain expertise is required to assess the hardware needs for an organization, common sense goes a long way. For a company with 100 users, a reasonably high upper limit for the number of messages per day would be 5,000. That would allow each user to send or receive 50 messages every day. Even if we say that each and every message ...
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