-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Erick Perez Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 11:59 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] How to size an email server to handle 5 millionemailsperday
On 8/23/07, Feizhou feizhou@graffiti.net wrote:
Mike Kercher wrote:
Well, of the 5M, how many would be real emails? I handle
over 1M on a
quad xeon, but only a fraction of those are good.
Heh. Yeah, I count emails as stuff that will be delivered,
stuff that
will hit the queue. I guess my definitions have got in the
way of this one.
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Right, actually the box will run an AV engine with antispam then delivered to a ms exchange 2003 server (local lan), so no local mailbox is being used.
The barracuda spam firewall 400 appliance handles my specs but i cannot get info on what hardware they run, it's a 1u raid1, linux hardened presentation but no idea of the cpu or ram.
And no, it won't be used for marketing, it's inbound only.
I wouldn't try to do it. 5 mil on a single box is too much with AV and SA going. Look into getting a cluster of spam appliances, say Ironports going, or using a MX service to do it for you.
-Ross
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