University MailScanner Setup

[Rose, Bobby]

We use Sitescope to monitor all out boxes for such things as CPU, Mem, Disk and mailscanner/sendmail process count and port 25 connectivity (if load is high then sendmail doesn't accept connections thus alerting us to an issue).   I also use a modified version of mailstats now called vispan which is based on perl and mrtg (http://www.while.org.uk/content/view/9/5/).  We also do quarantining and per user whitelisting/blacklisting using MailWatch (http://mailwatch.sourceforge.net/).



From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Monis Monther
Sent: Sunday, December 13, 2009 4:17 PM
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Subject: Re: University MailScanner Setup

Can you please also add how you monitor, and if anyone posts a solution please add the monitoring solution with it, Thanks
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 11:13 PM, Rose, Bobby <brose at med.wayne.edu<mailto:brose at med.wayne.edu>> wrote:
We have two boxes (somewhat similar hardware) using LVS (with Piranha as GUI) for the load balancing of smtp.  Our message counts are around 90-110 thousand.

Bobby Rose
Wayne State University School of Medicine

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On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 7:35 PM, Gottschalk, David <dgottsc at emory.edu<mailto:dgottsc at emory.edu>> wrote:
> Then we would just have a bunch of MailScanner machines fronted by a load balancer to handle all inbound email (I'd imagine we need more than six after doing so)

I doubt you need to spend money/time on a dedicated load balancer.
Just setting up all your MailScanner servers as MX hosts in your DNS
should do the trick for free. Load balancing via round robin from DNS
and failover from SMTP automatically picking the next MX if one is not
available.

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