I understand afp and filemaker don't play together too well but what about other services like mail. If I keep mail on the system drive and filemaker data on a separate drive will this be a problem?

thanks

from a purely technical point of view: it'll run.

But mail by nature is a bad companion: lots of disk I/O and potentially a lot of network I/O. Those 2 of the 3 FMS bottlenecks.

And performance aside: do you really want to take your mail down for an FMS reboot or FMS down for a mail reboot? If your FMS hosted solution is somewhat business critical you'll be better served by putting it on its own server.

Indeed it will run.

I had FileMaker Server fetch email thorough server side scripting. It works, but does tax the FMserver ( MacMini Server 10.6.x with FMS11v2 ) to the extend that I am installing a new seperate machine to do this work instead of the server.