Incoming from Ron Johnson: > On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 00:26 -0700, s. keeling wrote: > > Incoming from Steven Jones: > > > > > > I want to build a hi-speed sendmail/postfix gateway with clamav if I > > > > That's an interesting point. Long ago and far away, it used to be a > > given that any old x86 box with a big enough disk would be more than > > enough to handle just about anything a mailserver needed to do. > > > > Today, however, what with iptables, Spamassassin, clamav, high speed > > connectivity, %60 - %85 of traffic being Spam, etc., etc., yadayada, > > what does it take to handle mail nowadays? Assume a small to small++ > > What's the mail volume?
With %60 - %80 of traffic Spam, does _real_ mail volume matter? Agreed, if it's also doing IMAP, that's additional load. I assume that can be fobbed off on another machine. I'm just thinking mailserver, in a ca. 150 user LAN. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling Please don't Cc: me. - - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
