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Re: Server sizing methodology?

From: Brian Collins (listbcnewnanutilities.org)
Date: Tue May 02 2006 - 20:37:04 CDT


> I've got a couple of different sites for which I need to rebuild mail
> gateways (running postfix).
>
> At our big site, we've got something on the order of 25-30k messages per
> day. I'm planning on running postfix with greylist and possibly an
> amavisd-new/spamassassin scanner on the same box. This is going to be both a
> gateway and smart host for incoming/outgoing.
>
> At a smaller site, they only need a new outgoing server, with only about
> 2000 messages a day.

What everyone else said. I run a mail filter that passes 150k+ messages
per day with ATA-100 drives, dual-Athlon 1Ghz, 1 GB RAM. It doesn't
even break a sweat.

--Brian