Mailscanner PC requirements

[Lars Kristiansen]

> Hi
> might need more RAM, esp is you plan to use Spamassassin with the MS
> setup. My old system (cel 500 512MB RAM) would top out around 14,000
> messages per day of around 25kb average size. But I was also running
> MailWatch and the associaed mysql DB on the box as well and lots of
> extra SA rules..
>
> As for performance related stuff vmstat/iostat/sar are good places to
> start. Also you don't mention the MTA to be used. This can make a huge
> difference. Sendmail and Postfix tend to slower with exim and qmail
> faster in that order.
>
> You'll get extra performance by turning on softupdates on the spool
> directory filesystems too.

You can tune a couple of settings in MailScanner.conf which will help a lot:

As each mailscanner process uses about 20Mb of memory you probably want to
reduce the number of mailscanner children to 2 or 3.
for example: "Max Children = 3"
Dont recommend using only one because if that one chokes then the system
can stop processing mail altogether. Two or three children decreases that
risc.

Also if using spamassassin you can set spamassassins timeout high.
I have not heard of any drawbacks with this and it saves you lots of
worries, and especially so in a system with small resources.
for example: "SpamAssassin Timeout = 600"

>
> See you on the MailScanner users email list (under my work email).

also recommended reading:
http://wiki.mailscanner.info


--
Hilsen from Lars



>
> --
> Martin
>
> On 6/1/05, Jean-Paul Natola <jnatola at familycareintl.org> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> First OFF NEWBIE here - so  please bear with me--
>>
>> I have installed  FreeBSD 5.4 on a box that I plan to use Mailscanner to
>> "filter" the mail prior to hitting my Mail server.
>>
>> Its on a PII 450 with 256mb ram  and a 12 gig drive.
>>
>> I would like to know
>>
>> 1) How can I check to make sure the system is running OK ( I'm from the
>> windows world) where we have event logs  and performance monitor to make
>> sure
>> the install was done correctly, give you page fault data mem ,cpu usage
>> etc...
>>
>> Any tools  or commands in FreeBSD that can give me this type of info?
>>
>> 2) given the above specs, is that ok to handle mail for roughly 40
>> users?
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Jean-Paul Natola
>> Network Administrator
>> Information Technology
>> Family Care International
>> 588 Broadway Suite 503
>> New York, NY 10012
>> Phone:212-941-5300 xt 36
>> Fax:  212-941-5563
>> Mailto: Jnatola at Familycareintl.org
>>
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