Hi Dave,
When you say a cache server do you mean a server that takes incoming
mail, "Decludes it" and then passes it on to a server where the
mailboxes are (I call this my scanning server)?
Also what type of hardware are you running to process 150,000 msgs a
day?
Thanx
Goran Jovanovic
The LAN Shoppe
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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:Declude.JunkMail-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Doherty
> Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 9:53 PM
> To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com
> Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Forwarding and Hosting on IMail vs.
> SmarterMail
>
> Hi Goran-
>
> I am running a SmartHost testbed setup using a SmarterMail package as
a
> cache server. It's handling about 150,000 mesages a day and seems to
be
> holding up fine witrh very low proceessor usage. Of course, in this
mode
> without mailboxes, the operation is quite a bit simpler than a mailbox
> server. The web interface is a little slow to get started, but once
it's
> up
> it seems fine.
>
> So far, the only major drawback I've seen is the lack of
communications
> between mailbox servers and "SmartHost" cache servers. There is,
> apparently,
> no way to notify a SmarterMail SmartHost server as to what users are
> acceptable. They are therefore subject to dictionary attacks. I
created a
> little VB routine that runs every two minutes and deletes commonly
> formatted
> NDRs. I have the delicvery delay set to 3 minutes, so every message in
the
> spool is scanned at least once and many NDRs are deleted this way.
>
> I like the management features, too.
>
> -d
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Goran Jovanovic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <Declude.JunkMail@declude.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 8:23 PM
> Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Forwarding and Hosting on IMail vs.
> SmarterMail
>
>
> Thank you all who have commented. Based on my previous experience and
> not wanting to jump in too fast I am going to split my scanning and
> hosting servers.
>
> Kevin - some neat things that I noticed when I put up the free version
> is some very simply yet informative graphs. Disk space by domain, Disk
> space by user within a domain. Also there is bandwidth charts who is
> sending how much etc.
>
>
>
> Goran Jovanovic
> The LAN Shoppe
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:Declude.JunkMail-
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Bilbee
> > Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 11:18 PM
> > To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com
> > Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Forwarding and Hosting on IMail vs.
> > SmarterMail
> >
> > > There are some things missing, but there are also a lot of
> > > small neat features that make you say 'what a neat idea'...
> > >
> >
> > Could you elaborate on what is missing and what is neat?
> >
> > Kevin Bilbee
> >
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