First off, I appreciate this is _very_ much a "piece of string" question, I'm really after advice on whether I'm totally wasting my time from the start...
I setup a Redhat box running Postfix (usually the latest 2.x) and daemonized Spamassassin to act as an inbound only smtp relay. It's running on a Dell Poweredge which is a PII 350mhz with 256mb memory and a single 9gb SCSI drive. We have a 512kbps internet pipe, and the box receives around 20,000 emails a week of varying sizes (mostly small, the odd multi-mb message) Whilst I'm a linux newbie and not entirely clued on how to measure performance, message delivery is, to all intents realtime/instant once it's been received over the pipe. As I learn more about linux I want to try setting up Debian on an old Compaq Proliant 800 - it's a Pentium Pro 180 with (I think) 128mb of RAM and a single 4.3gb SCSI drive. There's no specific reason for doing this, one reason is that the Redhat box was very much an experiment that stuck around, and I suspect it's got all kinds of stuff on it that I just don't need, so I'd like to try the "only what I need" approach (hence Debian), other than that it's mostly just an exercise to learn a little more. I suspect that box will easily cope with the Postfix side of things and that it's Spamassassin if anything that will put a strain on it, guess I'm after a little opinion on whether I'm thinking along the right lines or not? If it all goes well I may just stick a spare drive in the Dell and stick Debian on that, but if it all goes too well and I end up with a working Compaq box I'm wondering if it will be up to the job - I'm mostly a Microsoft server admin, so it's easy to fall in the "not a Xeon with 1gb RAM so it's no good" trap :-) Paul ------------------------------------------------------- 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/psa00100003ave/direct;at.aspnet_072303_01/01 _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
