Large mail files and unix v windows server platform

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I work for a customer where the mail files are larger than those I’ve encountered elsewhere. 10% have 10gb or larger mail files, and 90% have 1gb or larger.

They’re considering moving from Windows servers to UNIX (flavor not yet announced). I have some knowledge about performance differences with respect to partitioned servers and ability to use memory, but not with respect to disk i/o.

I’m curious if anyone here has any thoughts about how a move from Windows to UNIX would affect the ability of the mail server to handle maybe 300 of these large mail files.

I realize that partitioning can be used to subdivide the mail file directories, but at this moment I’m trying to do an apples to apples comparison.

regards,

raphael

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Subject: Why use Windows for Networking???

Linux is the one for Networking. Linux is much faster than Windows based on the same hardware. :wink:

Linux will also compress your Big Email much faster.

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Subject: try compressing the attachments

You can try converting the attachments to .zip attachments… there are utilities doing this in one shot (www.zipmail.com)

HTH