Re: Exchange 2003 Enterprise capabilities

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Thank you Bob, although I find your patronising tone rather uncalled for. The
requirement is legitimate and the solution wont involve spamming of any sort
hence the reason I relisted the question after another MVP suggested Ironport
for spamming. Your point regarding NDR's and transaction logs have already
been considered but thanks for confirming our worries. The hardware can be
doubled and even trippled if need be so we are not concerned there. Your
point about the Microsoft account manager is however very valid and we
appreciate your pointing it out. We also hadn't considered the ISP
implecation so thank you once again.

All the best.
Colin.

"Bob Christian" wrote:

> Colin -
>
> Outside of any large companies or organizations that have support contracts
> with their messaging vendors, I can't imagine any organization which needs
> to mail 20,000,000 (20 million) users in a day. Generally these
> organizations, even the small companies that have a lot of users (credit
> cards, cell phones, ISPs, etc), have a Microsoft Premier contract and a
> Technical Account Manager or more. If you work with one of those
> organizations, engage your TAM.
>
> If you are a spammer, or are considering a career sending spam, my
> suggestion would be to spend the money that you were going to spend on a
> server on a good lawyer. You are going to want them to help find you the
> nicest prison or prison camp possible.
>
> Speaking as someone who worked for a legitimate company that had the
> potential to notify well over 4 million people via e-mail, your hardware is
> way too small, has no ability to balance the message load, and a NAS is
> likely not going to cut it.
>
> Even with 1K messages you are talking 20GB of data in transaction logs alone
> just to send the messages. Add on the non-delivery receipts and you are
> possibly pulling in 2GB of NDRs, or more.
>
> Even with the appropriate hardware, there is a good chance that your ISP, or
> other organizations, will throttle your activity long before you have issues
> with Exchange, or Sendmail for that matter.
>
> You don't need Windows 2003 Server Enterprise Edition just to have Exchange
> 2003 Enterprise Edition. Yes, there are instances, such as significant
> hardware and clustering requirements.
>
> Bob
> --
> Bob Christian II
> http://bobchristian.blogspot.com - Blog
>
>
>
> "Colin Graham" <ColinGraham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:81D35D38-1F47-47D6-A2F5-421D22ADA745@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Hi guys, can anyone tell me if Enterprise Exchange sitting on Enterprise
> > Server 2003 is capable of emailing 20 million users on a daily basis? Npt
> > spamming but individual emails.The system would be running on a dual g3
> > Dell
> > server, maybe a 1750 with a couple of Gb of ram and some NAS storage as a
> > back-end. If not, do you know Microsofts recommended solution?
> > Any help gratefully received.
>
>
>
.

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