SpamAssassian with FreeBSD and Big Mail Server

[Ion-Mihai Tetcu]

On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 14:51:28 +0100
Christian Damm <christian.damm at diewebmaster.at> wrote:

> 
> 
> Vahric MUHTARYAN schrieb:
> > 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).
> > Ýncoming 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 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   
> 
> i use spamassassin only on small-/medium-sized MTA installations (its a 
> memory/cpu hog i.m.h.o. but i like it) - on all my "bigger" systems i 
> really prefer dspam (coded in straight C and fast as hell). it is used 
> in some environments with 350,000 email users and scales really well (if 
> you have the iron and experience to build/maintain such a system/cluster).
> 
> http://www.nuclearelephant.com/projects/dspam/

Also in ports: mail/dspam and mail/dspam-devel (updates for both in not
committed PRs).

I'm currently playing with a setup like OP's. I'm interested in knowing
our definition of "iron and experience to build/maintain such a
system/cluster".


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IOnut
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