From: Tom Yates madhatta@mathworks.com
anyone here using a toaster to serve /var/spool/mail, including to a mail gateway machine (ie, not just for reading)?
Yep. Currently a F330 with 24 disks, 8MB NVRAM, 256MB RAM, 100BaseT network. This server handles mail and home directories for approx. 60K users. We're currently running (relatively) stock sendmail and popper. This works quite well. The mail problem is with the way popper handles mailboxes, but we're not blaming Netapp for that. (We'd _love_ to be able to change to a file-per-message mailbox format, but this is currently not really feasible - som people read mail from spool, and the programs that to this will have to be rewritten to use pop)
If things go our way, we'll upgrade to a F540 within not too long - and reassign the 330 for other uses.
regards,
---Ketil Kirkerud, Scandinavia Online