Len,
On your IMGate pages, you specify that the IMGate machine is Linux with
FreeBSD installed. Is this required? We have a Linux machine running
Interbase that has Red Hat installed. Can we use this machine as our
IMGate machine?
Thanks,
Gary
At 12:32 PM 11/7/00 , you wrote:
>You Imail admins that have Imail machines that are approaching being or
>are overloaded and you are dreading upgrading to a more powerful machine,
>you might interested in these numbers:
>
>sys1031.txt 185 MB
>sys1106.txt 135 MB
>
>The first line is the Imail log file size before IMGate, and the 2nd line
>from one week later is after IMGate.
>
>The approx 30% reduction in Imail logging is the reduced SMTP acivity, due
>to 15% to 20% of the incoming mail being rejected by IMGate (MAPS, DNS
>validations, unknown users, whatever, not even seen by Imail) plus Imail
>not having to accept SMTP sessions to bounce unknown users, and not having
>to retry repeatedly failed remote deliveries (the Imail outbound queue is
>now empty since Imail sends all outbound to always-available IMgate vs.
>100's of previously queued msgs due failed deliveries). The IMGate
>deferred queue (can't deliver) is between 500 and 1000 msgs on average (2
>day queue lifetime), a huge burden off the Imail \spool directory.
>
>So perhaps rather than upgrade your Imail machine, first think about
>lengthening its life a few more months or longer by adding IMGate, while
>increasing your customers' satifaction with a tremendous reduction in
>spam. Plus giving yourself a front-line of defense against mail bombs and
>relaying without touching Imail.
>
>And if you run lots of Imail list volume, then note that this IMGate
>machine runs as many as 220 SMTP delivery processes on demand (vs 30
>standard in Imail) and 30 to 50 SMTPD server processes, but you can add
>just about as many processes as you want within memory limits. This will
>tranform the speed at which you can turn around list msgs.
>
>Len
>
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