Re: perhaps off-topic: mailserver requirements? (was: Re: experiences with Debian Alpha)
Incoming from Ron Johnson:
> On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 00:26 -0700, s. keeling wrote:
> > Incoming from Steven Jones:
> > >
> > > I want to build a hi-speed sendmail/postfix gateway with clamav if I
> >
> > That's an interesting point. Long ago and far away, it used to be a
> > given that any old x86 box with a big enough disk would be more than
> > enough to handle just about anything a mailserver needed to do.
> >
> > Today, however, what with iptables, Spamassassin, clamav, high speed
> > connectivity, %60 - %85 of traffic being Spam, etc., etc., yadayada,
> > what does it take to handle mail nowadays? Assume a small to small++
>
> What's the mail volume?
With %60 - %80 of traffic Spam, does _real_ mail volume matter?
Agreed, if it's also doing IMAP, that's additional load. I assume
that can be fobbed off on another machine. I'm just thinking
mailserver, in a ca. 150 user LAN.
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