Yes, mail traffic is almost impossible to predict, so we are planning to deploy servers that can handle twice the size of the average traffic. But our dilemma is it's virtually impossible the growth of spam, so we might as well hope for the best and plan for the worst.
We actually separated our RBL and Antispam & Antivirus to two different systems, we used Linux (Postfix) for RBL and Windows based system for AV & antispam. On 9/21/07, Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The bad part is, once you get it working, "barely," everytime someone > does a DDoS or spam run on you, you will get massive queues AGAIN. > > > On 9/21/07, Ian Dexter R. Marquez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Orly's right. A "telco-grade" SMTP infra is the way to go. Or go for > > the mail security appliances. > > > > I recall having a customer with nearly that amount of mail traffic. > > They had a problem reining in the queue, even with their big iron > > boxes. Couple that with having AV software acting as the mail proxy. > > Nasty, I tell you. Took us months before finally getting it down just > > right for them, and even then only barely. > _________________________________________________ > 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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