From: "Hirthe, Alexander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 10:59 AM
To: "declude.junkmail@declude.com" <declude.junkmail@declude.com>
Subject: AW: [Declude.JunkMail] Hardware upgrade -Software Crossgrade?
Hi,
Ø Alexander, you are really citing two problems with your scale and
performance.
That's true, and I'm sure I will install IMail 8 on the new server to get an
easier migration. (and to be sure, to work on just one case)
That's the thing I must do, exchange the hardware. To small disks, to slow CPU.
RAM would be ok.
The second part (Update the Software) would be nice, even if there will be more
support calls after upgrading.
Ø My suggestion is that both problems would be relieved by introducing a mail
gateway in front of your mailboxes. In the Windows world, Alligate and XWall
are popular with Declude/Sniffer users on this list and the Sniffer support
list. With either one, I think you will find that the gateway will take the
brunt of the antispam effort, leaving the back-end server to service mailbox
connections and requests.
We use NoSpamToday as a front end server, and this lowers the incoming spam
very well.
The "problem" is, we are getting more and more customers :-) and they all want
a good working email system.
Ø If your existing hardware is old, you could replace the fans and disks and
have it become your new gateway, while you purchase some new hardware for your
back-end, which will scale much higher than before once the back-end has to do
less antispam processing.
We bought a new piece of hardware for the frontend Antispamserver.....
Ø p.s. Did you have a third problem? Were you implying that the feature-set of
IMail is no longer to your liking?
Is there anyone really using IMail 9? Especially if you had Imail 8 before?
I'm paying about 1000$ every year, and I haven't seen a really good working
version of IMail since 8.22.
I tried it on my testserver, put some domains on it, and it didn't worked like
it should.
I called support, mailed support and it was not getting better.
So I put it away and tried it some month later again. IMail 9 was (is) getting
better and better, but still it's not as stable as I want it.
Today I installed Smartermail and it's nice, easy to handle, has a nice
webinterface, and it's *cheap*.
I thought about dumping the IMail SA and buy Smartermail for that price :)
That's the reason for the Mail. IMail 8 is working, but it's old.
And I think, there could be a better software than IMail 8 :-)
Alex
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hirthe, Alexander
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 1:44 AM
To: declude.junkmail@declude.com
Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] Hardware upgrade -Software Crossgrade?
Hello,
we are going to move to an new hardware.
At the moment we are running Imail 8, Declude, Sniffer. It works, but Spam
detection is not perfect and overall system performance is getting worse.
Should we
- wait for IMail 10?
- use IMail 9?
- stay with Imail 8?
- move to Smartermail?
We host about 200 domains, with about 2000 Mailboxes.
Alex
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