I am running VMWare. I have allocated off 1 gig of ram with a dual core 3 GHz Xeon, it runs Postgrey, Postfix, Mailscanner, ClamAV, and Spamassassin for 100 employees. I run 4 max childern and a scan interval of 10 seconds. I do not have full stats on dropped connections. According to AWStats for this month so far:<br>
<br>51197 code 554 access denied<br>4210 code 450 DNS check failures, mailbox busy or other reasons<br>1286 code 550 relaying denied unknown users<br>13 code 999 unknown error<br><br>Our mail server is very responsive and solid. The only time I see more than the 10 second scan interval as a delay is the first time an address hits Postgrey. I have Postfix running rbls for me. I prefer to deny the connection so my load in general is reduced.<br>
<br>My rational for running in a vm is disaster recovery. I back this vm up monthly offsite. <br><br>Guy<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 10:36 AM, Ghetti, Ron <<a href="mailto:Ron.Ghetti@town.barnstable.ma.us">Ron.Ghetti@town.barnstable.ma.us</a>> wrote:<br>
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Running here on vmware, it took a bit of tweaking<br>
To get it to keep up when we get busy.<br>
No virus scanning as it is handled elsewhere.<br>
Although, I'd like to re-enable it but av scanning just kills it.<br>
The network load factor is generally all the spam attempts.<br>
I think it's dropping about 10 - 20,000 connections a day.<br>
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Here are some numbers.<br>
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There were 2,110 Messages Sent from internal Users.<br>
There were 0 virus infected messages removed.<br>
There were 12,814 Total messages Recieved.<br>
There were 4,072 Messages Delivered.<br>
There were 6,981 messages marked as spam.<br>
There were 7,794 Messages rejected due to bad recipients.<br>
There were 323 Messages rejected due to bad Sender Addresses (Domain Not<br>
Found)<br>
There were 996 Messages rejected due to embedded-attached images ( image<br>
spam )<br>
There were 4 Attempted Message Relays.<br>
There were 13,379 Connections Dropped.<br>
There were 22,505 rejected in Total.<br>
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Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 2:53 PM<br>
To: MailScanner discussion<br>
Subject: OT: Run MScanner in a virtualized environment.<br>
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Hi guys, i know that it's not recomendable to run MS on virtualized HW<br>
because of it's high cpu/io load. However, i'm doing some research<br>
because my boss required it.<br>
<br>
What products do you think that will work best? VMware? Xen? The<br>
objective is that it has to be simple and quick to deploy. Also will<br>
be useful in case the HW dies, so you quickly can have the emails<br>
flowing (may be with delay, but working), until HW gets repaired.<br>
<br>
We all know that installing MS servers takes a while, so having a<br>
pre-installed image will reduce times.<br>
<br>
Any thoughts?<br>
<br>
Everything will be appreciated.<br>
<br>
Eduardo.<br>
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