Maximun Throughput

[Julian Field]

A dual-Xeon 2.8GHz box can do up to about 1.5 million messages per day.
Needs 2GB RAM and a bit of disk for storing the mail queues.

At 10:21 16/04/2004, you wrote:
>My ISP doesn't currently offer antivirus/ spam scanning as 'standard'
>for their users (Not that I care as I use MS at home) but I have
>recently been involved in a discussion regarding adding this capability
>using MailScanner. They have concerns about it's capacity and have
>previously rejected SpamAssassin (In spamd mode) as not being able to
>keep up with their mail queues.
>
>I was wondering what people's maximum through puts are. My ISP uses,
>these days, high end Intel boxes having moved from Sparc (Although I
>have no idea of spec so any pointers as to suggested specs would be handy).
>
>Your thoughts, as ever, much appreciated.
>
>Drew
>
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