Like I said, you need lots of I/O and lots of CPU.. :-) As for spam... you have to plan for TEN TIMES the projected load. That's how severe spam can get.
If you don't... well what will happen is that everytime some Viagra pill peddler decides to Joe Job or dictionary-spam your domain, all your users will suffer from delayed emails. How I know that.. from painful experience. The IronPort boxes are great, AOL and Yahoo use them. But they are sold as a managed service (the box is free, but you pay around $6/month/user). On 9/21/07, Rogelio Serrano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/19/07, jon robles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello PLUG, > > > > Can you recommend machine specs for a CentOS running postfix that processes > > around 5-8M mails/day? Thanks > > > > Jon > > _________________________________________________ > > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > > [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > > Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists > > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > > > > Postfix will not do. It will choke up on that much email. I dont > really know any other mailer that can handle that much plus content > scanning. I suggest using a big cluster and do load balancing. > > I suggest an ibm bladecenter. what counts here is not the number of > cores its how many busses to as much hard disks working together. _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
