On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 3:00 AM Sean Greenslade <s...@seangreenslade.com> wrote: > > On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 02:12:01PM -0600, Grant Taylor wrote: > > On 5/26/22 8:32 AM, Ian Evans wrote: > > > Is it safe to assume that a $5/mth 1gig memory account will laugh at the > > > resources needed to run a SpamAssassin/Postfix/Roundcube/Dovecot/Nginx > > > stack and not ever break a sweat? > > > > Sadly, I found that I needed to quit tilting at the 1GB memory windmill and > > upgraded my tiny VPSs to 2GB for SpamAssassin + ClamAV + some other milters. > > > > You /might/ be able to get SpamAssassin in 1GB, but I don't know what else > > will be on the system. > > You can quite confortably fit SA and a full SMTP + IMAP stack in less > than 1 GB. My (admittedly low volume) mail server is currently sitting > at 340 MB of used memory and is running: > - Postfix > - Dovecot > - Spamassassin > - spamass-milter > - opendkim milter > - Various python mail sorting / organizing scripts > - openssh server > - BIND9 (master DNS server) > - Radicale (DAV server) > - Weave (Firefox sync server) > - Nginx (reverse proxy) > > I haven't found the need for any sort of AV scanner. Some SA rules that > reject messages with executable attachments have been more than adequate > for me. > > --Sean > [Just realized I replied only to Sean, so reposting to the list so others can chime in.]
Thinking out loud for a sec... Since my email traffic is so low, couldn't I leave clamav running on the more powerful/larger ram web server and have postfix access clamav on that ip? Just did a quick search and some people are running it on a separate server. Just a pre-coffee thought.
