Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 11:19:55 -0700 From: "Wolfpaw - Dale Corse" <admin-lists@wolfpaw.net> To: "'Eric Anderson'" <anderson@centtech.com>, "'Vahric MUHTARYAN'" <vahric@doruk.net.tr> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: RE: SpamAssassian with FreeBSD and Big Mail Server Message-ID: <022701c519d4$46c64fd0$020a0a0a@wolf> In-Reply-To: <421C99B6.1040300@centtech.com>
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Or you can use an antispam product that isnt a pig.. Like: www.sortmonster.com Is a nice one :) I run it, with SA behind it - works real nice, and cut our CPU usage on the mailservers by around 80%. D. > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-isp@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-isp@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Eric Anderson > Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 7:57 AM > To: Vahric MUHTARYAN > Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: SpamAssassian with FreeBSD and Big Mail Server > > > Vahric MUHTARYAN wrote: > > Hi Everybody , > > > > Really I don't know can I say a big mail server > which have > > 30,000 mailbox on it 1200+ simultaneously connections > > (pop,smtp,webmail). Incoming smtp connections are between > 200-400 . We > > want to run spam software on it but machine can't handle it > for this > > reason we seperated machine > > freebsd+exim+SpamAssassian but on 400 connection machine goes down > > freebsd+exim+average > > is very high , cpu usage really too high . > > > > I want to learn Anybody Who have closer or > bigger system > > and using SpamAssassian ?! Really this 400 connection > simultaneously > > can be limit for spam software ?! I mean Anybody can handle more ?! > > I have to design distributed environment ?! > > > > My Hardware is (for spam) > > 2 X PIII 1G + 1 GB RAM + 2 DISK RAID 0 SCSI > 10000 RPM > > With spamassassin, you can set the spamd machine (the machine > that does the spam processing) to be another machine, or > machines actually. I have my main mail server to all the > mail related work, and mail passes through spamc (on the main > mail server) which calls spamd (located on a spam machine, > which could easily be many machines in a round robin list), > to keep load down on the main server, specially when users > are running the learning tools (which we allow each user > individual spam bayes db's). Plus, you can work in a little > failover stuff with virtual IP's and such for redundancy. > > Eric > > > > -- > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------- > Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur > Technology > I have seen the future and it is just like the present, only longer. > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------- > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-isp@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-isp > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-isp-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >
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