SpamAssassian with FreeBSD and Big Mail Server

[Wolfpaw - Dale Corse]

Or you can use an antispam product that isnt a pig.. Like:

www.sortmonster.com

Is a nice one :) I run it, with SA behind it - works real
nice, and cut our CPU usage on the mailservers by around
80%.

D.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-isp at freebsd.org 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-isp at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Eric Anderson
> Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 7:57 AM
> To: Vahric MUHTARYAN
> Cc: freebsd-isp at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: SpamAssassian with FreeBSD and Big Mail Server
> 
> 
> Vahric MUHTARYAN wrote:
> > Hi Everybody ,
> >  
> >             Really I don't know can I say a big mail server 
> which have 
> > 30,000 mailbox on it 1200+ simultaneously connections 
> > (pop,smtp,webmail). Incoming smtp connections are between 
> 200-400 . We 
> > want to run spam software on it but machine can't handle it 
> for this 
> > reason we seperated machine
> > freebsd+exim+SpamAssassian but on 400 connection machine goes down 
> > freebsd+exim+average
> > is very high , cpu usage really too high .
> >  
> >             I want to learn Anybody Who have closer or 
> bigger system 
> > and using SpamAssassian ?! Really this 400 connection 
> simultaneously 
> > can be limit for spam software ?! I mean Anybody can handle more ?!
> > I have to design distributed environment ?! 
> >  
> > My Hardware is (for spam)
> >             2 X PIII 1G +  1 GB RAM + 2 DISK RAID 0 SCSI 
> 10000 RPM   
> 
> With spamassassin, you can set the spamd machine (the machine 
> that does the spam processing) to be another machine, or 
> machines actually.  I have my main mail server to all the 
> mail related work, and mail passes through spamc (on the main 
> mail server) which calls spamd (located on a spam machine, 
> which could easily be many machines in a round robin list), 
> to keep load down on the main server, specially when users 
> are running the learning tools (which we allow each user 
> individual spam bayes db's).  Plus, you can work in a little 
> failover stuff with virtual IP's and such for redundancy.
> 
> Eric
> 
> 
> 
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