Sizing machine for mailscanner

[Sylvain Phaneuf]

I will start with what I have learned from this maillist when I asked
the same question about 4 months ago. I will leave the more subtle
details to the real experts on this list.

Two slightly smaller boxes instead of a biggist one to do load shaing
and have a failover system if problems occur. Great to for upgrades,
etc. Mail flow continues on the 2nd box when you take the 1st off line.
Round robin DNS is great.

We have two identical boxes, getting a load average rarely >1 with
approx 40k mesages a day in total (probably 30k in 8 hours in day time)
with MS, SA and 2 anti-virus:

P4, 2.8 GHz
1 GB RAM
32GB HD

Nothing beefy, but does the job very well.

Sylvain


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>>> kte at NEXIS.BE 07/03/2005 09:04:15 >>>
If I get about 10000 mails /day in about 8 hours. What kind of machine
do I need I i turn mailscanner + spamassassin + 3 antivirus programs?

Thanks Koen

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