RE: SpamAssassian with FreeBSD and Big Mail Server

From: Wolfpaw - Dale Corse (admin-lists_at_wolfpaw.net)
Date: 02/23/05

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    To: "'Eric Anderson'" <anderson@centtech.com>, "'Vahric MUHTARYAN'" <vahric@doruk.net.tr>
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 11:19:55 -0700

    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
    >
    >
    >
    > --
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    > ----------
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    > Technology
    > I have seen the future and it is just like the present, only longer.
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