Hi,

What should I be looking for in a mail server? We send out big mailing lists every week to our users and its just putting too much strain on our web server, so are thinking about getting a separate dedicated mail server. What should we look for and what do we need?

I presume we need a lot of bandwidth... 1 million emails per month at 200k per HTML message needs about 195GB of bandwidth I think if my calculations are correct (which they might very well not be )

What about processor? RAM? Harddisk

Anyone with any experience who can help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Tom

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