<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Gottschalk, David <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dgottsc@emory.edu">dgottsc@emory.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I'm wondering though how other colleges are handling their mail filtering using MailScanner. How many machines are being used, etc, etc?<br></blockquote><div><br>We use MailScanner to filter *outbound* mail from our web cluster
(about 50 servers). Two high end machines with round robin DNS does
the trick for us. It's not perfect but if all the machines have
identical hardware the law of averages will be fine for round robin
DNS. If you are mixing hardware I think that one or more of them will
eventually get loaded down and cause issues unless you baby sit your
mail servers regularly. Load balancing is good but not necessary in our setup. Handing your volume though it would help if it was actually balancing load instead of just distributing based on response time of the SMTP daemon or something equally useless. <br>
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We currently get about 30-40 million email messages per week, of which about 1.5 million are delivered to our relays. We have approximately 40,000 email accounts.<br></blockquote><br>We are only processing about 110,000 outbound email messages a week from these web servers across both MailScanner boxen.<br>
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