On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 01:43:57AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> 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++
> > operation (to 150 users).
>
> What's the mail volume?
>
> Also, spamc 3.0 can be kinda slow (or mine isn't tuned that well).
> Especially with Baysean filters turned on.
>
Oh yeah - we are only very small - 8 users and We are using a PII 233
with 64MB RAM.
It was coping ok with spamassassin 2.6, but 3.0 completely killed it -
scan times of over a minute, which can be a problem at smtp time...
moving spamc to a more beasty box is workng great. Scan times drop back
to less than a second on a P4 2.6 Gig, 1 Gig RAM machine. Much nicer.
cheers
dc
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