Bob Sully wrote: > It looks like this thread is dying off but I've just gotten through > reviewing two days' worth of messages. I have to admit that I > agree with Abigail on the premise of the thread. If I can run > clam-antivirus and mime-defang on my mail servers (including one on > which I run two mailing lists with Mailman 2.0.13) I don't see why the > SF people can't do the same thing - as well as considering making the > list subscription-only but the archives world-viewable). It is, after > all, a responsible thing to do, and the software is free and works > quite well.
But the hardware to run the software is not free- and handling really large volumes of email takes *big* hardware. Think "cluster of 4-way Xeon-2GHz/16Gmem". Or whatever. I've been pushing ~1.5GB+ (~30K+ messages) inbound and "outbound relay" mail per week through a PII/400 (recently upgraded to 450). It's mostly OK, but if a flood of mail comes in, the load spikes, and in extreme cases it reaches the sendmail QueueLA and RefuseLA points- which I've tuned for that system, *down* from the defaults. Further back, I had to upgrade a PPro/200 that was doing domain hosting- once I added spam filtering, the overall system load nearly *tripled*. Otherwise the box could have handled 4-5x the number of domains it had been handling. -kgd -- <erno> hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping, it works completely, I just can't figure out where in my apartment it is. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100006ave/direct;at.asp_061203_01/01 _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
