Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 16:01:59 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question: SSL via POP3 a performance killer? Message-ID: <20040429130159.GA82083@ns2.wananchi.com> In-Reply-To: <20040428211007.GB357@mind.net> References: <20040428211007.GB357@mind.net>
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* John Fox <readbsd@mind.net> [20040429 00:09]: wrote: > I'm planning my company's next mail server, and would like to get > away from using plain-text authentication for POP3 service. It's > been suggested to me that my best bet would actually be to run POP3 > over SSL, and thus simply encrypt the clear-text authentication, > and that would be good enough for me. > > However, I've also been told that SSL can be very demanding of even > a very powerful computer. > > This new machine will likely run an AMD XP 2600 (or if I'm lucky, > maybe even a 3X99) processor and 1G of RAM, and the OS will (obviously) > be FreeBSD, probably 4.10. It will service approx- imately 13,000 > POP3 accounts, and handle approximately 100,000 POP3 requests per > day. > > Does this seem a workable setup, or does it appear that the > system will indeed be overwhelmed by all the SSL? This is an overkill. And I recommend tpop3d as the POP3 daemon. 1.5.3 Supports SSL. I run it here for over 14k users on a machine with specs lower than yours, which is also my main SMTP server, does web hosting, IMAP, etc. -Wash http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html -- +======================================================================+ |\ _,,,---,,_ | Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com> Zzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ | Wananchi Online Ltd. www.wananchi.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-'| Tel: +254 20 313985-9 +254 20 313922 '---''(_/--' `-'\_) | GSM: +254 722 743223 +254 733 744121 +======================================================================+ A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space. -- Gloria Steinem
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