Solution for 1 CPU screaming

Rob Poe rpoe at PLATTESHERIFF.ORG
Tue Feb 22 20:21:09 GMT 2005


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And how do you reject mail not known to the MTA if you're using
MailScanner to intercept ??

We use MailScanner in front of Groupwise's GWIA - to catch bad stuff
coming in...



>>> martinh at SOLID-STATE-LOGIC.COM 2/17/2005 4:11:31 AM >>>
Hi

I have a similar set and have the P4 running MS/SA etc. All email is 
transfered to the internal primary MX - the external MX gets routed to

the P4 buy the firewall.

I have around 100 users and load avg is around 0.2 (I reject unknown 
email addressed the MTA which drops about 66% of the traffic before it

hits MS/SA..)

--
Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300


Mauricio Cavalcanti wrote:
> I think it´s half off topic, but...
> 
> In a medium business office (~1k users), I have 2 servers running
Linux: 
> 1 gateway (P4 ~ unused) and 1 mail server (P3 very used) running pop

> (dovecot), apache (for webmail), sendmail with DCC, Pyzor, Razor, SA
and 
> MailScanner.
> 
> The P3 CPU is becoming red in monitoring. They want to include samba

> file share in P3 server and I think it will not work as they want.
> 
> I think I can use P4 to make e-mail tests (MS and SA) e after that,
this 
> server relays the "low score" e-mail to P3 and make it´s life easier
:)
> 
> Anyone has this kind of solution implemented or have another ideia to

> solve this?
> 
> Thks in advance,
> Mauricio.
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