Adam, I'm sure Len will give you more specific details. But my setup runs FreeBSD and Qmail with qmail-scanner and spamassassin. The hard drive space is trivial, nothing is really kept on that server... it may spool some... but basically it's an In-Out situation.
The RAM.. well.. it's SO CHEAP now... you might want 256 megs just for S&Gs. As for the CPU, my setup is an Athalon 850 and it pegs the CPU at 100% when it's hit with a burst of list server traffic. Plus PPro200s are hard to find these days...just get the best deal you can on a CPU. I bet Pentium 600s are cheap. I have a dual PPro200 box with 256 megs of ram sitting in a closet... you may have something laying around that'll work fine. Yes, Unix is that much more efficient. Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adam (Snowboard)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 6:40 PM Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] SMTP Gateway (was: Web Messaging Still crashes 10 to 20 times per day) > OK, we are looking into buying a new machine to run IMGATE and FREEBSD on > since you guys recomend it so highly. > I was wondering why the machine only has to be a p 200 2 gig disk and 128 > meg of RAM? It seems to em that this will be way underpowered to be the > front for over 200, 000 mail accounts. I don't know much about unix, I have > used it before but don't know much about the processing abilities of the it. > Is it just that much more efficient than a windows operating system? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "R. Scott Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 11:15 AM > Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] SMTP Gateway (was: Web Messaging Still crashes 10 > to 20 times per day) > > > > > > >We setup Imail as an Smtp gateway on another server, This server looks > for > > >spam using declude so that all incoming mail from the internet is checked > > >before it actually reaches our main server and then forwards it to our > main > > >server if it is allowed. This will hopefully cut down on the smtp > processing > > >that our main server has to do. I think we can use declude to do this. > Read > > >the foolowing two articles and tell me what you think: > > > > Yes, Declude can do this. > > > > -Scott > > --- > > Declude: Anti-virus, Anti-spam and Anti-hijacking solutions for > > IMail. http://www.declude.com > > > > --- > > [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus > (http://www.declude.com)] > > > > > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > > to be removed from this list. > > > > An Archive of this list is available at: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > > > > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > to be removed from this list. > > An Archive of this list is available at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
