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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 2, 2016, at 5:46 AM, Remco Barendse <<a href="mailto:mailscanner@barendse.to" class="">mailscanner@barendse.to</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Hi list!<br class=""><br class="">I would like to upgrade the servers that are running MailScanner.<br class=""><br class="">What is the best approach on storage? It will be virtual machines (which i guess is what a lot of people are doing now), how to approach the storage issue, what would be the best approach / design? What size for the MailScanner root partition etc. ?<br class=""><br class="">I have to keep verbatim copies of anything that goes in or out of the mail servers, i keep the qf/df pairs from sendmail.<br class=""><br class="">I read some people seeing their quarantine getting filled with 7 Gb of virii just in one day, what would be recommended storage sizes and how to deal with quarantine / archive folders? If it wise or recommended to mount an external volume at /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine and<br class="">/var/spool/MailScanner/archived or is there a better way ?<br class=""><br class="">If I have several MailScanner servers, is it OK to keep all spam/archived copies in one and the same mount ?<br class=""><br class="">Will CentOS 7 work flawlessly? Anyone using standard cloud images?<br class=""><br class="">Thanks for any tips / suggestions :>)<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">-- <br class="">MailScanner mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:mailscanner@lists.mailscanner.info" class="">mailscanner@lists.mailscanner.info</a><br class="">http://lists.mailscanner.info/listinfo/mailscanner<br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>