I use Proxmox VE (http://proxmox.com/products/proxmox-ve) for a virtual platform. VB is is fine for workstations, but not as well suited for servers.
-- -Eric 'shubes' On 09/08/2012 10:22 AM, BC wrote: > > > Okay, thank you for your input and I will ponder all that. What I DO > NOT WANT, is yet another computer sucking up power here in the house. > So I'll have to think about running a "virtual platform", such as > VirtualBox by Sun/Oracle (I think that is what you mean) and putting > the mail server over there. > > In 2004 I used WindowsXP's VPC to set up a virtual machine on which I > ran FreeBSD and a complete mail server with qmail. Felt rather > otherworldly to be running everything on one box with CAT5 cables > running from NIC-to-NIC on one machine. Just wanted to see if it > could be done. > > Thanks again! > > > On 9/8/2012 11:00 AM, [email protected] wrote: >> You've got the right idea. Implementing it isn't trivial though, and I >> wouldn't recommend putting all those eggs in one basket (on the same >> host), unless you use a "virtual" platform to do so. >> >> I recommend you look into IPCop or pfSense for a firewall host. You can >> put IPCop on an old PII or PIII host. It only takes 128M of ram, and a >> 1G HDD would do fine. These distros are robust network service hosts >> (router/firewall/vpn/dhcp - you name it). >> >> BL, you really don't want your mail server (or any server for that >> matter) handling network security. Apply the KISS rule whenever possible. _______________________________________________ spamdyke-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.spamdyke.org/mailman/listinfo/spamdyke-users
