Do I need SpamAssassin?

[Mike Kercher]

I can run more than 20,000/day on a Proliant 1850R with dual PIII-600's and a
gig of RAM and not break a sweat.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list
> [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Julian Field
> Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 4:00 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Do I need SpamAssassin?
>
>
> At 21:06 08/05/2003, you wrote:
> >Finally, a question about performance. If I have an MTA box in a DMZ
> >running Bind and Sendmail (sending and receiving mail on the
> internet)
> >and the load is really light (we average about 5.000 messages/day)
> >would a similar box be sufficient for MS, SA and anti-virus
> scanning to
> >be placed between the MTA and Exchange? The box I'm
> referring to is a
> >Sun Fire V120 with 550 MHz UltraSparc-II and 512 MB RAM. Will I need
> >more CPU and/or RAM?
>
> I have a SunFire V120 with 2GB RAM on order at the moment at
> work. Not sure when it is going to be delivered but no-one
> will notice if I hijack it to setup a speed test on it.
>
> I'll use a sendmail setup probably with SuperSafe=False,
> otherwise sendmail crawls. I'll put Sophos on it for the
> virus scanning. I will let the list know how many messages
> per day it should be able to handle.
> --
> Julian Field
> www.MailScanner.info
> Professional Support Services at www.MailScanner.biz
> MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support
>