[65273] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Mirapoint Message Director appliances
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Wed Nov 19 14:32:44 2003
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 14:32:05 -0500
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh@outblaze.com>
To: "Paul S. Brown" <pol@geekstuff.co.uk>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <200311191919.16465.pol@geekstuff.co.uk>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Paul S. Brown writes on 11/19/2003 2:19 PM:
> The PC I was thinking of using for this would be the same spec as the
> Mirapoint boxes (dual 2.8GHz P4, 2GB RAM, Lots of U320 RAID). I also wouldn't
> be using a single PC.
Thought so - but if you spend some time putting things together, you get
more bang for your buck from postfix + courier + other stuff.
Scale horizontally - more cheaper boxes rather than fewer pieces of big
iron. You'll be able to build something quite large that way.
> As goes users, I honestly don't know how many hide behind those domains, but
> around 8-10m mails a day at present are hitting this system
Should be quite doable.
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