[CentOS] How to size an email server to handle 5 million emails per day
David Hrbáč
hrbac.conf at seznam.cz
Fri Aug 24 11:26:57 UTC 2007
Kai Schaetzl napsal(a):
> Erick Perez wrote on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 21:52:20 -0500:
>
>> 5 million emails a day
>
> so, 4 million of that are spam? The ressources you need depend very much
> on how you deal with spam. If you take good measures at MTA level the
> system backend with SA etc. has only to deal with 1 million, otherwise it
> has to deal with five times of that. Quite a difference.
>
> Kai
>
Some hints:
- if there are 4 Mil of spam consider greylisting,
http://postgrey.schweikert.ch/ helps a lot SA
- use local DNS cache
David Hrbáč
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