Les Mikesell wrote: > On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 04:24, Alain Reguera wrote: >> I'm getting a little involved now, thanks for replaying guys >> >>> Disable Imap and only keep pop3 ? >> but how can I grant students' mobility around labs, keeping their >> Inbox's messages available from one workstation to another? > > Does this have to live on the same box? Used hardware is > really cheap these days and you can use an MX record to > direct your inbound mail through a screening box. > >> The suggestions have been very important. I'll continue reading in >> this direction. Any last comments are also welcome :) > > The best thing you could do for that box is max it out with > RAM, followed by transplanting a SCSI controller and drive > for the most active partitions. Ironically, new RAM for > old machines is pretty expensive but if you have a scrap > bin, dig through it. > > Software-wise, I'd recommend sendmail with MimeDefang > unless the postfix/mailscanner combo has a way to > avoid starting a new copy of the scanners for each message. > MailScanner starts one copy of the scanners by batch of messages. -- Ugo -> Please don't send a copy of your reply by e-mail. I read the list. -> Please avoid top-posting, long signatures and HTML, and cut the irrelevant parts in your replies.