Server Specifications?

[John Hanks]

We run Mailscanner + McAfee + Spamassassin on two machines for redundancy,
each machine is a 2.2 Ghz P4 with 1GB of DDR RAM and a 3Ware Escalade 7000-2
ATA/133 RAID card and 2 40 GB drives in a mirror. Each machine processes
about 50,000 messages per day and they rarely break a sweat. I was watching
them once when a particularly heavy SPAM influx happened, roughly 2000
messages over the course of 5 or 10 minutes and the boxes handled it fine.
Either box is sufficient to handle the entire mail flow (roughly 100,000
messages per day), which was the point so we could take one down for
upgrades without affecting mail.

jbh


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Cormie" <j.cormie at ABERTAY.AC.UK>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 8:19 AM
Subject: Server Specifications?


> Hello,
>         We are looking at putting in place a server running Mailscanner &
> SpamAssassin, and I was wondering what kind of spec machine we would
> require...
> Looking at the mail logs of our exchange server, last week we had:
> 11296 messages outgoing (352MB), 95574 messages incoming (900MB)
>
> Can anyone with a similar amount of mail tell me what they are running?
>
> Thanks
>
> Jason D Cormie
> Information Specialist
> Network & Communications Team
> Information Services
> University of Abertay Dundee
>
> ccojdc at abertay.ac.uk
> 01382 308826
>