With less than 100 users, I really don't think this will create an
abundancy of excess load (assuming they are average users). If you are
experiencing performance issues now already, you may wish to split all of
your mail services off to an additional server, though. Most admins feel
that having their Internet services on the same iron as their internal file
and print services poses a security risk that they'd rather not deal with.
Putting file and print services on another segment, or at least another
subnet (a private, non-routable block) add's another abstraction layer
between you and the world.
As far as your users' outgoing mail is concerned, you could change their
ports to the IMail server, however if you send the mail to WebShield, it
will handle and relay it appropriately. It may be wise for you to do it
this way, to ensure that you aren't distributing virii yourself. Hope this
helps.
Best Regards,
Jonathan
At 01:51 PM 3/17/2000 -0700, you wrote:
>I am planning to start using McAfee WebShield to scan mail. I need to run
>it on the same server as IMail which is also our main file/print server. We
>only have 88 email users (mostly pop3 accounts) of which about 50 use this
>server for file/print services. IIS is also running our Intranet from this
>computer. The computer is a dual PIII 400 with 256M RAM and a raid 5 array.
>
>The plan is to change IMail to port 2525 (I found the knowledgebase article
>on that).
>Install WebShield and point it to localhost:2525.
>This means that my users will be directing their outgoing messages to
>WebShield vice IMail.
>
>My questions are:
>Will this be too much of a load for this server?
>Will I need to change the users outgoing mail to 2525 so that IMail gets it
>first or will WebShield handle it?
>Am I missing anything in the changes I want to make?
>Am I asking for trouble by setting it up this way?
>
>
>
>Dan Shadix
>Computer Network Manager
>Terry Reilly Health Services
>
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