Starting from scratch

[Julian Field]

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1024MB of RAM should be fine. I recommend 512MB per CPU. With only 2400
messages per day it should happily tick along pretty quietly.

Billy Pumphrey wrote:

>Thank you for the reply.  1024 is the max on it.  I only process about 2400
>messages daily so 1024 should be good hey?  I will go RAID1 then.
>
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Martin Hepworth [mailto:martinh at SOLID-STATE-LOGIC.COM]
>>Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 11:55 AM
>>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>>Subject: Re: Starting from scratch
>>
>>Billy
>>
>>I'd buy more RAM, drop a disk and use RAID1 - RAID 5 with only 3 disk
>>will slow the I/O down quite alot.
>>
>>There's lots of nice stuff in SA3.02 so I'd drip feed you existing rules
>>into it, and make sure you have the URI-RBL's turned on too...
>>
>>Also watch out for the ALL_TRUSTED rules in SA 3.02 (see the comment in
>>latest spam.assassin.prefs.conf).
>>
>>
>>--
>>Martin Hepworth
>>Snr Systems Administrator
>>Solid State Logic
>>Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
>>
>>
>>Billy Pumphrey wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I searched the mailscanner archives at
>>>http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-
>>>
>>>
>>bin/wa.exe?S1=mailscanner&D=0&T=0&H=0&O=T&F=&S
>>
>>
>>>=
>>>
>>>But I could not locate updates information.  I also tried to find the
>>>recently topic of "Complete Build".  I know that there is a ton of
>>>information in there but I just could not find it.  I know that a lot is
>>>talked about what to run it on, however if I may inquire on my setup as
>>>Linux is not my environment of expertise.  I will try to make my
>>>
>>>
>>questions
>>
>>
>>>short.  My main and pretty much only question is what versions should I
>>>
>>>
>>use?
>>
>>
>>>What I have now:
>>>550mhz
>>>384 RAM
>>>IDE hard drive (desktop)
>>>
>>>I will be moving to:
>>>Server
>>>Dual 600PIII
>>>1024 RAM
>>>3x9.1GB RAID 5 Hard drives
>>>
>>>What I have now:
>>>Redhat 9 (Shrike)
>>>MailScanner 4.25
>>>Spamassassin 2.61
>>>MailStats for statistics
>>>Running RulesDuJour
>>>Running other rules too
>>>Sendmail version ??
>>>Sophos virus scanning
>>>
>>>In question to move to:
>>>Should I still use Redhat 9?  Seems to work fine
>>>MailScanner 4.40.11
>>>Sendmails latest version 8.13.4
>>>Spamassassin latest version 3.0.2
>>>Different rule sets from the web sites
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