[OT] E-mail provider recommendations

[Peter Corlett]

On 22 Jul 2007, at 15:04, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
[...]
> You have to jump through major hoops to make it scale in any  
> meaningful sense: make
> sure your filesystem is laid out properly,

ext3 with dir_index on Linux.

> make sure you're using the right one of
> the myriad mailbox formats,

Maildir++

> shoot stupid sales people flinging massive .ppt files
> around.

Quotas. They're not difficult to set up. The main problems are  
political.

> It's just pain.

For that, you need Exchange.