[geeks] Re: Spam filter test results

Bill Bradford mrbill at mrbill.net
Sat Feb 1 05:38:34 CST 2003


On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 11:55:22AM +0100, Joacim Melin wrote:
> >I do anywhere from 50-200M/day of outgoing mail.  When I was hosting 
> >the
> >sun-managers list on this machine, it was almost 1G/day, *just* for
> >mail.
> Out of curiosity - what kind of hardware, OS and software are you using 
> for running this list ?

Currently the main machine is a 333Mhz (2M L2 cache) Ultra 5, 256M RAM,
80G Western Digital "Special Edition" (8M cache) IDE HD.  Previous
machine was a 440Mhz/2M AXi-based SCSI system.  Solaris 9, Postfix, and
MailMan.

> I use sendmail and majordomo myself and are pretty happy with both.

I found sendmail to be *very* slow compared to postfix.

Bill

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bill bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
austin, texas


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