New server spec.

[Randal, Phil]

MailScanner mailing list wrote:
> Dear all,
> My Mailscanner box is struggling and is getting upto its sell
> by date - its only a matter of time before it fails.
> It looks like I may be able to get hold of a new Dell
> poweredge 2850 with 1 Xeon 3.2 ghZ processor, 4gb ram, 5x36gb
> SCSI disks and red hat enterprise advanced server V3 (with
> s/w support).
> I intend to run latest versions of MailScanner,sendmail,
> sophos, Spamassassin & spam cop - possibly a second virus scanner.
>
> Is the version of red hat mention the best bet for this or
> should I stick with v9? Dell don't mention SUSE as supported.
>
> Also if I go ahead should I raid 5 all the disks or do what I
> have with some MS2000 boxes and raid 0 two disk for the
> 'system' and raid 5 three disks for the data? The disk space
> is not critical as currently the mailscanner box has a single 20gb
> disk and 512mb Ram.
>
>
>
>
> I'm exited but  is what I plan to do sound?
>
>
>
> Regards
>
> Howard Robinson
> (Senior Technical Development Officer)
> Harper Adams University College
> Edgmond
> Newport
> Shropshire
> TF10 8NB UK

Redhat Enterprise 3 should be fine.  We're happily running Fedora Core 1
on a Dell 2650 here.

I'd be tempted to do hardware RAID-5 for everything.  But see the MAQ
(http://www.mailscanner.biz/maq/#optimize) for MailScanner optimisation
tips.

I'd run ClamAV and Bitdefender for Linux as well.

We're handling over 10,000 emails a day on a lower spec'd box without
any problems.

Cheers,

Phil
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Phil Randal
Network Engineer
Herefordshire Council
Hereford, UK

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