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Date:      Wed, 1 Jun 2005 13:32:21 -0400
From:      "Jean-Paul Natola" <jnatola@familycareintl.org>
To:        "Bill Moran" <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: Mailscanner PC  requirements
Message-ID:  <3A85D7EF44E1C744BF6434691F5659E9414EF4@fci-ex.FCI>

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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" <jnatola@familycareintl.org> 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



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