[sniffer] Re: Ideal config for scaleable solution?

2008-02-22 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
Paul, since you're working in a Windows world, check out Alligate from alligate.com as a Windows platform based email gateway. I've put Alligate in front of my Declude setup and it drastically reduced the number of emails I had scan for content and sender in Declude, and gained back a lot of disk

[sniffer] Re: Ideal config for scaleable solution?

2008-02-22 Thread Pete McNeil
Hello Paul, Thursday, February 21, 2008, 7:52:55 PM, you wrote: Ie, ideal for processing/serving 10+ million emails per day in an imail/declude/snf configuration. SNF seems to generally be the big processor hog (though the new beta has definitely made huge performance improvements over the

[sniffer] Re: Ideal config for scaleable solution?

2008-02-22 Thread Pete McNeil
Hello Andrew, Friday, February 22, 2008, 4:37:18 AM, you wrote: snip/ If you were a *nix shop, you would still lean towards having a dedicated gateway server (or many) and your CPU hog would be spamassassin, which you would run in a client/server model to shift the CPU usage to other boxes.