Paul, since you're working in a Windows world, check out Alligate from alligate.com as a Windows platform based email gateway.
I've put Alligate in front of my Declude setup and it drastically reduced the number of emails I had scan for content and sender in Declude, and gained back a lot of disk time and cpu time. The product can share your existing server, but is recommended for a dedicated gateway. It can scale to many gateways while sharing a central database. It'll do everything you want, actually. That's as much as I'm going to say here, because this list is all about Message Sniffer. If you were a *nix shop, you would still lean towards having a dedicated gateway server (or many) and your CPU hog would be spamassassin, which you would run in a client/server model to shift the CPU usage to other boxes. Meanwhile, you might check the Declude support list for scalability tips with your existing setup. Andrew. > -----Original Message----- > From: Message Sniffer Community > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Rogers > Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 4:53 PM > To: Message Sniffer Community > Subject: [sniffer] Ideal config for scaleable solution? > > > Ie, ideal for processing/serving 10+ million emails per day in an > imail/declude/snf configuration. SNF seems to generally be the big > processor hog (though the new beta has definitely made huge > performance > improvements over the prior version). > > OK...this is a bit off-topic, but I'm looking for some > feedback in how to > plan for handling this type of load (current load is between 1.3m and > 1.8m/day). > > Should I just throw more high performance hardware at it? > > Scale out perhaps by dedicating a server to just the junk > mail scanning. > Then have a relatively wimpy server taking care of normal Imail stuff > (recipient of the declude/snf "clean" and/or "tagged" emails). > > Along that line of thought, can SNF be configured to work > directly with the > MS/IIS SMTP server? This combo could work great as a > spam-killing gateway. > > Has anyone assembled this sort of configuration in a load > balanced/redundant > environment? > > Paul --- > > > > > > ############################################################# > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list <[email protected]>. > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[email protected]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
