OffTopic: MailScanner Architecture

[Lance Haig]

I would be VERY careful of the MA1500


I have had one for 3 months and we have lost 7 drives and have had 7 
corrupted logical disks

If you want to know more let me know

Lance

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> All,
>
> i thought I would post to this list instead of main, as you are real hardcore testers, to see if you would mind sharing your MailScanner
> infrastructure setup.  I am looking to setup my own business in the UK, and curious to see how you have all done it.
>
> The type of configuration I have been thinking about is as follows :-
>
> HP Blade Enclosure (bl25 x 8 / Dual Opteron / 4GB RAM)
> 2 x Postfix Servers
> 2 x MySQL Commercial Clustered Servers (for whitelists,spam-cache etc etc etc)
> 2 x BIND DNS Servers
> 2 x Backend MailStores (including webmail)
>
> All datastores will be held on a HP MSA1500 and will be presented to the servers via fibre.
>
> Now I have been thinking of using Gentoo, my preferred O/S, but may look at using RedHat so I can use Global File System.  This way I can truly
> cluster applications.
>
> What do you think ? Any help from you all would be greatfully appreciated. Apologies if this is far off-topic, but thought it may be interesting for
> us to share ideas on MailScanner setups.
>
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