Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3996 mails)

[Henry Standing <lists@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Any P4 will do, even a fast P3.  Don't over buy on the processor, save
the
> money for mirrored disks (raid).  512meg of memory should be plenty for
> the work load you would have.

Okay - how does this sound:

SuSE 9.1 Pro
Postfix
Squirrel
light(ish) processor - P4 2GHz?
Hardware-RAID0'ED SCSI disks
1GB RAM
Gigabit ethernet (purely because I can, and my network is 90% Gigabit)

> You do intend to run Amavisd or some virus scanner on it don't you?

I was thinking of running Sophos - anybody got experience with this?

http://www.sophos.co.uk/sophos/docs/eng/factshts/Sophos_PM_Unix_fsuk.pdf

On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 05:15, John Andersen wrote:
> On Tuesday 31 August 2004 05:03 am, Henry Standing wrote:
> 
> >Squirell Mail, SpamAssassin and Sendmail to
> > serve c. 70 POP boxes 
> 
> > 1.  Has anybody got any advice on which model I should go for (budget of
> > GBP 2000 ex VAT)?
> >
> > 2.  Has anybody got any advice on which version of SUSE would be most
> > appropriate?
> 
> That's not much of a load, if all it has to handle in inbound mail and pop.
> 
> Any P4 will do, even a fast P3.  Don't over buy on the processor, save the
> money for mirrored disks (raid).  512meg of memory should be plenty for
> the work load you would have.
> 
> You do intend to run Amavisd or some virus scanner on it don't you?