actually the postfix are just for relaying mails to two separate systems. It just actually serves as relay with rbl enabled using spamhaus and spamcop. I already have 5 mchines in place but a traffic of 5.5M (with rbl enabled) or more causes hellish queues.
Here are the general specs of the machines i used Dual Intel Xeon 2.8Ghz 4GB RAM Gigabit NICs SATA Drives On 9/20/07, jan gestre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 9/20/07, jon robles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Do you have any idea on how many servers should we have for this kind of > > traffic? > > > i'm no expert but i think you should set up a clustered mail server, a > minimum of 3 server will suffice, i think? the first server just handling > smtp while the other two for mail storage and mysql database, pop3 and imap. > is this mail server for enterprise use or you're setting up a free mail > service? > > > On 9/19/07, John Homer H Alvero < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Wow, > > > > > > I'm excited what the experts will say. 8M mails/day is about 92 mails > > > / second. > > > > > > As for me, get the fastest server. Consider looking at: > > > > > > 1. Network bandwidth > > > 2. CPU, memory > > > 3. Disk IO > > > 4. Choose a good MTA > > > 5. Consider a load balanced environment > > > 6. If you are serving web mail, choose a good / lightweight webmail > > > client > > > 7. other things i forgot :) > > > > > > What you're about to accomplish sounds challenging. > > > > > > > > > > > > On 9/19/07, jon robles < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hello PLUG, > > > > > > > > Can you recommend machine specs for a CentOS running postfix that > > > processes > > > > around 5-8M mails/day? Thanks > > > > > > > > Jon > > > > _________________________________________________ > > > > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > > > > [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > > > > Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists > > > > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > > > > > > > _________________________________________________ > > > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > > > [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > > > Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists > > > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________ > > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > > [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > > Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists > > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > > > > > > -- > http://jangestre.wordpress.com > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph >
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