"Daryl C. W. O'Shea" writes: >Justin Mason wrote: >> Jason Haar writes: > >>> Obviously you have to have over-speced your mail servers to be able to >>> do this - something poor old Justin can't manage I think :-) >> >> Yeah. If I could persuade someone to donate a server just for *my* >> personal mail, that'd solve it, but in the meantime, not so much ;) > >If you've got the bandwidth to spare on both ends and a spare machine at >home, you could offload the bulk of your SA workload to a machine >running spamd at home backed up by a hopefully fairly idle pre-forked >instance of spamd on your colo'd server. > >I've stashed spamd machines on a few friends and relatives (yes, quite >distinct groups) cable and DSL lines for a couple years now while just >running the actual SMTP servers on boxes in colo facilities. It's >worked well.
wow -- that's really quite a nifty idea! That had never occurred to me ;) Unfortunately it's a shared server, and that degree of futzing with the inbound mail flow might be a bridge too far. --j.
