From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 1 17:32:23 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2632B16A41F for ; Wed, 1 Jun 2005 17:32:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jnatola@familycareintl.org) Received: from mail.familycareintl.org (mail.familycareintl.org [68.167.21.154]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6F2943D1F for ; Wed, 1 Jun 2005 17:32:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jnatola@familycareintl.org) Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 13:32:21 -0400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.7226.0 Message-ID: <3A85D7EF44E1C744BF6434691F5659E9414EF4@fci-ex.FCI> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Mailscanner PC requirements Thread-Index: AcVmymhNBNyPbhYxSWO+uSimJVo8JwABT7Dg From: "Jean-Paul Natola" To: "Bill Moran" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Mailscanner PC requirements X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 17:32:23 -0000 Well our mail store ( is at about 8 gigs) it should never go higher = than than that. Should I try to get a # of messages per day tally , would that help? -----Original Message----- From: Bill Moran [mailto:wmoran@potentialtech.com]=20 Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 12:53 PM To: Jean-Paul Natola Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mailscanner PC requirements "Jean-Paul Natola" wrote: > Hi all, >=20 > First OFF NEWBIE here - so please bear with me-- >=20 > I have installed FreeBSD 5.4 on a box that I plan to use Mailscanner = to > "filter" the mail prior to hitting my Mail server. >=20 > Its on a PII 450 with 256mb ram and a 12 gig drive. >=20 > I would like to know >=20 > 1) How can I check to make sure the system is running OK ( I'm from = the > windows world) where we have event logs and performance monitor to = make sure > the install was done correctly, give you page fault data mem ,cpu = usage > etc... >=20 > Any tools or commands in FreeBSD that can give me this type of info? Look at top(1), systat(1), as well as the various logs in /var/log > 2) given the above specs, is that ok to handle mail for roughly 40 = users? Hard to say without more details on what the volume is for those 40 = users, but I expect it should be OK ... unless your usage patterns are very unusual. --=20 Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com