Your box should be able to handle 3-7k email a day but sounds like you're running some expensive anti virus and spam filtering which for the bulk of spam email will be taxing for the server.
It will depend on your policy whether you block or weight (or a mix of both). If you weight then your box will be groaning under large volumes of email but at least you're doing your best to flag spam properly. If you block on blacklist and other test then you run a higer risk of stopping legitimate email. I'm finding greylisting is very effective sitting in front of the expensive tests (we're processing around 100k emails a day this way) and leaving Declude/Sniffer to deal with those that get past. It's very efficient and so far very few false positive and our incidence of spam is much, much lower. Horses for courses. ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Matrosity Hosting" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [email protected] Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 10:03:59 -0400 >uhh, no. Just delete it as there's mot much you can do about it. > >Bill Foresman >Matrosity Hosting >www.matrosity.com >850.656.2644 > > > > _____ > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Post >Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 9:49 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: [IMail Forum] Bouncing Spam? > > >I am getting bombarded with between 3,000 - 7,000 (or possibly more!) spam >messages a day, along with the regular mail for 100+ users & wonder how >taxing this is on my poor ol' dual 500 mail server. Also, would it be >possible, or advisable to just bounce it? > > ________________________________________________________________ Sent via the WebMail system at wiss.co.uk To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
