From: Darin McGee (darinbasehex.com)
Date: Tue Aug 05 2008 - 09:06:46 CDT

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I too would like to thank Wietse for Postfix along with the authors of
Maia Mailguard, amavis-new, clamav, spamhaus, et al..

Our Postfix frontend gateway processes almost 500,000 emails a day of
which we only accept less than 3% as being legitimate email for over
4,000 user accounts. Enterprise environment with the majority of users
are minimal Internet mail users.

We do this on one HP DL360G4 dual Xeon, 4GB RAM, (1 GB used as RAM disk
for amavis temporary work space) mirrored 36GB 15K SCSI320 drives
running SUSE Enterprise 10. We have been using this configuration for
almost two years now.

Considering we have been quoted well over $30,000 per year for a
"commercial" spam / anti-virus solution that would require a beefier
piece of hardware, Postfix has proved to our management that open source
software is in fact a very viable alternative to commercial software.

Thanks,
Darin

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-postfix-userspostfix.org
[mailto:owner-postfix-userspostfix.org] On Behalf Of Stan Hoeppner
Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 8:21 AM
To: postfix-userspostfix.org
Subject: Re: spam status with postfix ( thank you )

Richard Foley wrote:
>
> This mail is just FYI and by way of saying:
>
> "postfix and friends do a great job - many thanks!"

Hi Richard,

I second your sentiments and would like to shout out a big thank you to
Wietse for creating Postfix!

I was at about the same point you are now for more than 2 of the last 3
years, with about 5 spam a day making it into my inbox. Over the last 6

months or so that number has steadily increased, and in the last month
the curve has become much steeper, averaging 25-40 spam per day until
just this past week.

Over the weekend I implemented an access table and have started adding
the class C network of each host successfully getting spam into my
inbox. I'm down to less than 5 a day again. :)

Give it a shot. It doesn't take much time at all and the results are
well worth the effort.

Stan
 

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