Re: [vchkpw] Mail system configuration recommendations

2005-10-10 Thread Jeremy Kitchen
On Tuesday 04 October 2005 03:11 pm, Bill Wichers wrote: hoy do you pass the mails from the MX servers to the mailstore server? you mount the unit with nfs, or you do it with smtproutes? smtproutes. I've been thinking about changing it from smtp to qmtp too, since qmtp seems to be made for

Re: [vchkpw] Mail system configuration recommendations

2005-10-10 Thread Jeremy Kitchen
On Tuesday 04 October 2005 11:43 pm, Shane Chrisp wrote: I've been using simscan to block messages that score 8 or higher for at least 3 months now, and haven't had a single complaint. The result is we're blocking 57% of the inbound email, which greatly reduces the load all around (fewer

Re: [vchkpw] Mail system configuration recommendations

2005-10-05 Thread Shane Chrisp
On Oct 4, 2005, at 7:09 PM, Bill Wichers wrote: The trouble is that we tag, but don't block, most of the spam since our customers don't want us to maybe cost a sale by blocking something that shouldn't be blocked. I've been using simscan to block messages that score 8 or higher for at

[vchkpw] Mail system configuration recommendations

2005-10-04 Thread Bill Wichers
I'm probably going to have to scale our mail system (not really just a mail server anymore :-) a bunch in the coming months, and am looking to get any advice from others that are running largish mail systems. Right now I have several inbound MX boxes that do spam/virus filtering and accept mail

RE: [vchkpw] Mail system configuration recommendations

2005-10-04 Thread Ingo Claro
: [vchkpw] Mail system configuration recommendations I'm probably going to have to scale our mail system (not really just a mail server anymore :-) a bunch in the coming months, and am looking to get any advice from others that are running largish mail systems. Right now I have several inbound MX boxes

RE: [vchkpw] Mail system configuration recommendations

2005-10-04 Thread Bill Wichers
hoy do you pass the mails from the MX servers to the mailstore server? you mount the unit with nfs, or you do it with smtproutes? smtproutes. I've been thinking about changing it from smtp to qmtp too, since qmtp seems to be made for this kind of thing, but I haven't had the time. note that

RE: [vchkpw] Mail system configuration recommendations

2005-10-04 Thread Ingo Claro
to configure it. regards, ingo -Mensaje original- De: Bill Wichers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: Martes, 04 de Octubre de 2005 18:12 Para: vchkpw@inter7.com Asunto: RE: [vchkpw] Mail system configuration recommendations hoy do you pass the mails from the MX servers

Re: [vchkpw] Mail system configuration recommendations

2005-10-04 Thread Rick Macdougall
Bill Wichers wrote: Right now maybe 1500-2000 or so users, and about 1.5 million messages/day. This amount of load is handled pretty well by our current setup, but I expect in the coming year to be well over 10k users and probably 6 times the message volume, maybe more. We're rolling out a new

Re: [vchkpw] Mail system configuration recommendations

2005-10-04 Thread Bill Wichers
1.5 million messages a day for 1500-2000 users ? We have 30K+ users and only see about 10K an hour messages. We use one MX server, one spamd server and two real qmail/vpopmail servers (one server handles one 20K+ domain and the other server handles about 100 domains with about 11K users).

Re: [vchkpw] Mail system configuration recommendations

2005-10-04 Thread Tom Collins
On Oct 4, 2005, at 7:09 PM, Bill Wichers wrote: The trouble is that we tag, but don't block, most of the spam since our customers don't want us to maybe cost a sale by blocking something that shouldn't be blocked. I've been using simscan to block messages that score 8 or higher for at least 3