I knew that :) -----Original Message----- From: Travis Rabe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 2:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] industry grade front-end SMTP solutions
Talk to Len. He will take care of you with IMGATE just fine. Travis > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Fyodorov, > Andrey FTL > Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 11:14 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: [IMail Forum] industry grade front-end SMTP solutions > > > Hey all. What do you guys see out there that most companies use to > process SMTP traffic at the front-end? > > Is it mostly UNIX-based solutions or Linux-based? Are Windows-based > solutions popular too? > > I have been to quite a few large environments and never really had a > problem with Windows-based stuff. Last place had three Windows boxes > with SurfControl, we had 7,000 users, and didn't have much trouble > with the SMTP > traffic. I have also used MimeSweeper and Tumbleweed in very large > environments in the past without big problems. > > At this place (2,000 users), we currently have a couple of Solaris > boxes that are running Exim and SpamAssassin and they seem to not be > able to cope with the task. The boxes are Sun servers with nice CPUs > and memory. They run > out of CPU resources (one or more SpamAssassin threads just hog > the CPU and > eventually bog down the servers). Also the guys in charge of > these boxes are > pretty bright too. > > The managers want to maybe explore other options. > > 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/ > 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/ 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/
