Re: [CentOS] Re: How to size an email server to handle 5 million emails per day

2008-01-04 Thread Christopher Chan
Bill Campbell wrote: On Thu, Jan 03, 2008, Joshua Gimer wrote: I can only talk from experience; we are currently doing spam and anti- virus checks in our inbound flow of around 600,000 messages per day. To do this we have three inbound SMTP gateways running Sophos Puremessage with Sendmail a

Re: [CentOS] Re: How to size an email server to handle 5 million emails per day

2008-01-03 Thread Bill Campbell
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008, Joshua Gimer wrote: >I can only talk from experience; we are currently doing spam and anti- >virus checks in our inbound flow of around 600,000 messages per day. >To do this we have three inbound SMTP gateways running Sophos >Puremessage with Sendmail as the MTA.. These s

Re: [CentOS] Re: How to size an email server to handle 5 million emails per day

2008-01-03 Thread Joshua Gimer
I can only talk from experience; we are currently doing spam and anti- virus checks in our inbound flow of around 600,000 messages per day. To do this we have three inbound SMTP gateways running Sophos Puremessage with Sendmail as the MTA.. These systems are quad proc systems with 6 to 8 GB

Re: [CentOS] Re: How to size an email server to handle 5 million emails per day

2008-01-03 Thread Jean-Yves Avenard
Hi > > about 5 million emails a day. 5 million emails a day? What are they doing? send spam? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Re: How to size an email server to handle 5 million emails per day

2008-01-03 Thread Ugo Bellavance
Erick Perez wrote: I have no idea as to how to size an email server. I was approached by a customer that wanted a single server with RAID 1 disks to handle about 5 million emails a day. In general terms, what parameters should I take into account to size the hardware specs when the average email