[sllug-members]: smtp server

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On Monday 30 October 2006 21:51, Knight Walker wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 20:00 -0700, Chris Brown wrote:
> > I agree with all the suggestions made. Just keep in mind that the
> > spamassassin component does not scale well in one machine volume
> > wise. I still strongly recommend it, but it is a resource hog. Give
> > it plenty of RAM and CPU if expecting more than say 50,000 to
> > 100,000 emails a week.
>
> Speaking of which, anyone know (or have URLs to) tricks to speed up
> or otherwise optimize Spamassassin, or how to cluster it to handle
> large numbers of messages?

Not quite SpamAssassin itself but if you've got the system resources 
amavisd-new (http://www.ijs.si/software/amavisd/) can run multiple 
child servers to handle SpamAssassin checks on a per-message basis. If 
you need to, it can also be run on its own server to handle the load 
more efficiently and provide message filtering for Postfix (I believe 
Exim as well). 

How much mail do you need to process? Some of the folks using 
amavisd-new with Postfix are processing fairly large volumes of mail. 
You may want to peruse the amavis-user mailing list archive to get an 
idea of the various setups people are using it with: 
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum=amavis-user .

Regards,

Rick