Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Forwarding and Hosting on IMail vs. SmarterMail

Wed, 12 Jan 2005 11:16:38 -0800 

Hi Goran-

I'm not running Declude on this box. It's just an offsite backup MX cache that holds mail if the main server is unavailable and delivers it to the main server when it comes back up. It's running on a ProLiant 1850 with dual 550mHz P3s. Average processor usage runs around 5-7%. The only time I see the processors spike as high as 50-60% is when my little VBScript NDR-purge routine runs for half a second or so every two minutes. I was surprised at the volume report myself, as we generally deliver around 50,000 messages on weekdays, but that's what it says. In this mode, SmartHost is generating about 100mb of log files a day..

-d


----- Original Message ----- From: "Goran Jovanovic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 11:49 AM
Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Forwarding and Hosting on IMail vs. SmarterMail


Hi Dave,

When you say a cache server do you mean a server that takes incoming
mail, "Decludes it" and then passes it on to a server where the
mailboxes are (I call this my scanning server)?

Also what type of hardware are you running to process 150,000 msgs a
day?

Thanx




    Goran Jovanovic
    The LAN Shoppe



-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:Declude.JunkMail-
[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Doherty
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 9:53 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Forwarding and Hosting on IMail vs.
SmarterMail

Hi Goran-

I am running a SmartHost testbed setup using a SmarterMail package as
a
cache server. It's handling about 150,000 mesages a day and seems to
be
holding up fine witrh very low proceessor usage. Of course, in this
mode 
without mailboxes, the operation is quite a bit simpler than a mailbox
server. The web interface is a little slow to get started, but once
it's 
up
it seems fine.

So far, the only major drawback I've seen is the lack of
communications 
between mailbox servers and "SmartHost" cache servers. There is,
apparently,
no way to notify a SmarterMail SmartHost server as to what users are
acceptable. They are therefore subject to dictionary attacks. I
created a 
little VB routine that runs every two minutes and deletes commonly
formatted
NDRs. I have the delicvery delay set to 3 minutes, so every message in
the 
spool is scanned at least once and many NDRs are deleted this way.

I like the management features, too.

-d




----- Original Message -----
From: "Goran Jovanovic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 8:23 PM
Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Forwarding and Hosting on IMail vs.
SmarterMail


Thank you all who have commented. Based on my previous experience and
not wanting to jump in too fast I am going to split my scanning and
hosting servers.

Kevin - some neat things that I noticed when I put up the free version
is some very simply yet informative graphs. Disk space by domain, Disk
space by user within a domain. Also there is bandwidth charts who is
sending how much etc.



     Goran Jovanovic
     The LAN Shoppe



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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Bilbee
> Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 11:18 PM
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> Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Forwarding and Hosting on IMail vs.
> SmarterMail
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> > There are some things missing, but there are also a lot of
> > small neat features that make you say 'what a neat idea'...
> >
>
> Could you elaborate on what is missing and what is neat?
>
> Kevin Bilbee
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