Re: Planning Mail Server (with low resources)

[ugob at camo-route.com (Ugo Bellavance)]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 04:24, Alain Reguera wrote:
>> I'm getting a little involved now, thanks for replaying guys
>>
>>> Disable Imap and only keep pop3 ?
>> but how can I grant students' mobility around labs, keeping their
>> Inbox's messages available from one workstation to another?
> 
> Does this have to live on the same box?  Used hardware is
> really cheap these days and you can use an MX record to
> direct your inbound mail through a screening box.
> 
>> The suggestions have been very important. I'll continue reading in
>> this direction. Any last comments are also welcome :)
> 
> The best thing you could do for that box is max it out with
> RAM, followed by transplanting a SCSI controller and drive
> for the most active partitions.   Ironically, new RAM for
> old machines is pretty expensive but if you have a scrap
> bin, dig through it.
> 
> Software-wise, I'd recommend sendmail with MimeDefang
> unless the postfix/mailscanner combo has a way to
> avoid starting a new copy of the scanners for each message.
> 

MailScanner starts one copy of the scanners by batch of messages.


-- 
Ugo

-> Please don't send a copy of your reply by e-mail.  I read the list.
-> Please avoid top-posting, long signatures and HTML, and cut the 
irrelevant parts in your replies.