Who has the slowest mailscanner?

[Michael S.]

You think that's old?

In 1993 I purchased my first SCSI drive. It was purchased to add more disk
space to a BBS we were running, long before anyone ever heard of the
Internet. The drive is only 20gig and was so large and thick we had to mount
it outside of the computer case with a special SCSI connector we had made
for the system so we could connect it. At the time they wanted 2,000 for it
but I talked the guy down to 1,200.00. I thought I was on top of the world
being one of a select few who ran a SCSI system on a BBS that could host up
to 256 users on a single PII. Sold the company back in 95 but the present
owner is still running that same drive, outside of the computer case. 13yrs
later that drive is still chugging along.

-----Original Message-----
From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
[mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Michael
Mansour
Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 8:11 PM
To: MailScanner discussion
Subject: Re: Who has the slowest mailscanner?

Hi,

> I've got a couple old Pentium-II/300 machines
> chugging away for a couple
> small clients.  Both handle about 1000 messages/day.
>  One of them is
> getting hammered right now and is running about 7000
> messages/day....poor thing.

I have one PII 266 Dual CPU with 512mb of RAM and 2x
9Gb drives. It doesn't handle the bulk of email
fortunately but acts as the backup mail server in case
the primary is down. It's running FC2 and has been
on-line for more than 10 years (Acer Altos 930).
During that time it has warped from a dialup server,
to firewall and now for the past few years a
MailScanner server.

It's the oldest box I have, it's had it's day and it's
up for decommissioning (I'm just trying to find the
time to do it). It's Acer Altos 1100 cousin (beefier
PII 450 dual) which used to sit next to it blew it's
power supply a couple of months back after a similar
trail of un-affected service. Of course, the
proprietry nature of servers back in the early
nineties means it's cheaper to bin the server (which I
did do) and get a new one than to get a $400 power
supply from Acer (if you can still get them).

This server is a little workhorse, they certainly
don't build servers like they use to, but when I
finally decommission it, I will tip my hat to it for
the years of continuous service it's provided me. I
can count the number of times I've rebooted it with my
fingers and toes.

Michael.



		
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