Re: Performance and requirements

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From: Lazyadmin (rodb_at_dortoh.ca)
Date: 03/22/04 

Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 10:04:50 -0600

GFI Mail Essentials only does Spam filtering.

Thanks for the input :)

Rod

"James Williams" <itenginerd@nospam.earthlink.nospam.net> wrote in message
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> The only thing I see here is that you're doing 2+ virus scans on your
> emails using both NAV and GFI. What I'd recommend is buying a cheap
> workstation w/ 2K Pro or XP Pro on it, making it an SMTP Gateway, and
> moving your GFI services out there. That will take the virus and spam
> scanning of inbound email off of your Exchange server.
>
> As far as HW specs, I'd say anything you can buy from Dell for $500 will
> do, unless you have a real preference to make this server-class HW.
>
> Lazyadmin wrote:
> > I am currently running Exchange 2000 on a dual PII 450Mhz, 1GB PC100,
RAID 5
> > (4x9GB) system. I have 35 users and approximatley 50 mailboxes with an
> > average mailbox size of 250MB
> >
> > The server is also a Domain Controller for a Windows 2000 AD domian.
The
> > server has NAV for Exchange, GFI Mail Essentials running for AV and Spam
> > filtering.
> > On top of all this it also provides FTP service to clients and file
sharing
> > for a 5 LAN users.
> >
> > Performance is an issue, and has become worse over the last few months
as
> > the influx of Spam and Virus infected messages has increased. I am
> > considering a new server but am open to other suggestions. A new server
> > would allow me to remove the DC, file sharing and FTP roles from the
mail
> > server.
> >
> > Having diffculty determining hardware requirements for this new server.
> > According to MS minimum is a P133 with 128MB RAM :) but after that your
> > guess is as good as mine, hoping to hear from others with the same
> > size/needs and what they are using.
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Rod
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >

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