On your IMGate pages, you specify that the IMGate machine is Linux with FreeBSD installed. Is this required? We have a Linux machine running Interbase that has Red Hat installed. Can we use this machine as our IMGate machine?

Thanks, Gary

At 12:32 PM 11/7/00 , you wrote: >You Imail admins that have Imail machines that are approaching being or >are overloaded and you are dreading upgrading to a more powerful machine, >you might interested in these numbers: > >sys1031.txt 185 MB >sys1106.txt 135 MB > >The first line is the Imail log file size before IMGate, and the 2nd line >from one week later is after IMGate. > >The approx 30% reduction in Imail logging is the reduced SMTP acivity, due >to 15% to 20% of the incoming mail being rejected by IMGate (MAPS, DNS >validations, unknown users, whatever, not even seen by Imail) plus Imail >not having to accept SMTP sessions to bounce unknown users, and not having >to retry repeatedly failed remote deliveries (the Imail outbound queue is >now empty since Imail sends all outbound to always-available IMgate vs. >100's of previously queued msgs due failed deliveries). The IMGate >deferred queue (can't deliver) is between 500 and 1000 msgs on average (2 >day queue lifetime), a huge burden off the Imail \spool directory. > >So perhaps rather than upgrade your Imail machine, first think about >lengthening its life a few more months or longer by adding IMGate, while >increasing your customers' satifaction with a tremendous reduction in >spam. Plus giving yourself a front-line of defense against mail bombs and >relaying without touching Imail. > >And if you run lots of Imail list volume, then note that this IMGate >machine runs as many as 220 SMTP delivery processes on demand (vs 30 >standard in Imail) and 30 to 50 SMTPD server processes, but you can add >just about as many processes as you want within memory limits. This will >tranform the speed at which you can turn around list msgs. > >Len > > to be >removed from this list. > > >

-- Gary

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