On Tuesday 24 February 2004 03:50 pm, Kenneth Porter wrote: > --On Tuesday, February 24, 2004 1:52 PM -0600 "Andrew S. Johnson" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I had to upgrade my server from the trusty 486 to the K6 last year just > > to support MD and SA. Ya, I know that's not exactly bleeding edge > > hardware, but the price was right (free). I'm trying to work with what I > > have. > > I hear you. That's about the class of machine I've been running my company > mail and file server on for the last 5 years (266, not 300, but 128 MB of > memory, a Dell PE4200). It's done remarkably well for being a gutless > wonder. I'm just about to retire it. Its replacement is a cast-off Compaq > Proliant rack server. > > With the dot-com implosion, a lot of defunct companies left fairly useful > computers gathering dust. I have quite a few of those in my garage of about > this capability. Even going concerns will pay you to take away their older > machines instead of having to pay someone to recycle them. (After all, "the > latest version of Windows won't run on them!") > > I'm also active in online computer gaming, and gamers are frequent > upgraders. Maybe you know one who's cast off an "old" Athlon motherboard > because it can't play the latest game. Recycle it into an old "doorstop" > case and you'll once again have a reasonable box for a low-end server.
Actually, once I replace my ages old Athlon 1200 w/512 megs with some dual K8 I've been lusting after for years, resources shouldn't be a problem. Until then, I have to think lean. That's why DSPAM looks good, in that it seems light weight. I've gotten some good ideas from some other responses to my posts, so if I do get something going, I'll definately post the results. The front runner involves mangling mimedefang-filter by adding greylisting and bumping $hits in a call separate from SA, but I'm hitting walls with both. I have more questions now than when I started. Andy Johnson _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
