On 24 Apr 2002 at 9:46, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 11:41:02AM +1000, Adrian.Bolzanaot.com.au
> wrote:
>
> > I will be building two mail servers, usign RH 7.2 and postfix
> > on both.
>
> Don't use RH. You want a minimal system in the DMZ, and one that can
> be upgraded easily. Use Debian. Besides, the Postfix packages in
> Debian are better than RH's.
>

We have a mix of RH and debian in our network now and the decision has been
made to standardise on RH, so i will just have to harden the DMZ server. I have
notlooked into the postfix packages on debian, as we were going to compile from
source, as well as do some SASL authentication on the server in the DMZ.

> > One (in the DMZ) will be for relaying in and out of the
> > company, as well as handling authenticated-SMTP from
> > remote users
>
> The humblest machine will suffice.
>
> > matching for now). At a later stage it will also hold a
> > commercial Anti-virus package. This server will handle
> > about 3000 to 5000 e-mails in and out per day, with sizes
> > up to about 5MB, although about 60% will be <50K.
>
> The humblest machine will suffice for the relay.
>

good. currently it is just a P166, 256MB RAM, and scsi for a squid proxy server.

> > For that last server, what sort of hardware would be
> > necessary? I was thinking about a:
> > P3/1GHz,
> > 256MB RAM,
> > 1 x SCSI HDD.
> > or (as someone suggested to me: 2 x IDE drives, mirrored).
>
> More RAM. If you're filtering, you need more RAM.
> Although you don't really do much mail. We do 10 times more on a 1GB
> AMD K6 1000
>

Thanks for the advice on the RAM. It is pretty cheap so i will go for 512MB. I will
probably just use 1 SCSI disk for /var/spool, and an iDE for boot, logs, /etc, etc.

thanks,

adrian

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