Estimating a machine for another's mail environment is a tricky thing. Memory *tends* to be more important than CPU. Personally, even if I could get away with a P166, I wouldn't. A box that old has an increased probability of dieing an unnatural death. I would at least want a box that I could support through a vendor. How important is the Email? The answer will determine the level of support needed and dictate your options.
All that aside . . . I am assuming, maybe incorrectly, that this will be a gateway. If it is and you are really intent on using the P166, maybe you should use two of those boxes and give equal MX weightings so you have a little redundancy. You might be able to minimize administration if you use rsync between the two boxes. I would prefer 256MB of memory and would feel uncomfortable with less and would not use less than 128MB - but that is just me. Another person on this list is using a 266MHz machine with 64MB RAM and a max mail flow of 5K/week, not per day. Message flow is not the only factor though. Message size also has a bearing. I have had servers with lower message flow that just pounded on mem/cpu utilization because the attachments were so large. The hardware requriement for one customer that had 100 users, 5K msgs/day, and 1 MB attachments was much greater than another customer that had 550+ users, 30K msgs/day, and msg sizes typically between 200-500KB. --Larry > -----Original Message----- > From: Jon Fraley > I am planning on putting a Red Hat 9.0 box on our network to scan > incoming email using sendmail, spamass-milter and spamassassin2.55. > It will probably handle 3k to 5k messages daily. Does anyone have a > recommendations on hardware. I have an old Pentium 166 that I > thought about using. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
