Do I need SpamAssassin?

[Julian Field]

At 22:14 08/05/2003, you wrote:
>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.

Would you like to add a section to the Faq-o-matic containing all these
performance test results? Then we can easily keep the results together in
one place so they are more easily found than searching the list archives.

Thanks!




> > -----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.
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