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From: kashani <kashani-list@××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] opinions & know-how requested: how to create a mail cluster
Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 22:40:30
Message-Id: 42F3E8EB.2020803@badapple.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] opinions & know-how requested: how to create a mail cluster by daniel
1 daniel wrote:
2 > Thanks for all of your suggestions, LDAP has been recommended to already,
3 > though it came with the warning "it's an ugly beast" so I'm not really
4 > thrilled with the idea of adopting it.
5 >
6 > Actually, our company is rather small (<40 people). I've been asked to learn
7 > how to do this to replicate a setup that's already been done but we're trying
8 > to replace. Initially though, the 4 server setup is meant just to block spam
9 > and I was told that the numbers of email spam are so crazy that we needed
10 > this setup. Am I right in assuming that from your comments that you don't
11 > feel this should be the case for a company of this size?
12 >
13
14 Heh, a Celeron desktop would be more than enough. :) Well maybe
15 something just a bit faster.
16
17 I'd recommend reading the following link. It details a number of easy
18 spam filtering techniques. It's Sendmail based, but again just about any
19 of it can done on any other MTA once you know the concept. The author is
20 also using very conservative hardware specs so you get an idea of
21 exactly what sort of resources it might use on your system.
22 http://www.acme.com/mail_filtering/introduction_frameset.html
23
24 kashani
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