Mailscanner filter server to my Mail store " I just canna do it c aptain! "

[Antony Stone]

On Wednesday 27 August 2003 2:18 am, Damien McKenna wrote:

> On Tuesday 26 August 2003 09:00 pm, Antony Stone wrote:
> > I agree with the last point - this would work better as a single system,
> > therefore if you *can* set up two well endowed machines, better to
> > configure them both for anti-virus and anti-spam checking, and have equal
> > priority MX records pointing to them for load balancing.
>
> Good idea.
>
> One question though - how would that work with the user's mailbox storage?
> Would that be on a separate server which was mounted?

Either 'mounted' or else a simple SMTP/POP3 server with no scanning tools.

I believe you want different features for a mail scanning machine: processing 
ability and memory, not much storage, you can easily cope if it falls over, 
so long as there's another machine next to it with an MX record - versus a 
mail storage (POP3/IMAP) machine: not much processing, not much memory but 
needs disk storage for the mailboxes (especially for IMAP) and needs to be 
reliable (Raid, good PSUs etc) because if this falls over your users can't 
collect their email.

Regards,

Antony.

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