Carrier class email security recommendation

Mon Apr 12 15:59:53 UTC 2010

I haven't seen the man ask support for messages/hour, 3M..10M..1B ? Or maybe
I missed this question?

Zaid

On 4/12/10 8:47 AM, "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <ops.lists at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 8:45 PM, todd glassey <tglassey at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> On 4/12/2010 7:22 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
>>> The man did say "carrier class" .. not "small webhost for four
>>> families and dog".
>> 
>> yes he did Suresh ... meaning that something larger and more secure than
>> the off-the-shelf copy of Linux is needed. Funny the NSA and many others
>> would disagree with you.
> 
> I know of (and have been the postmaster for) multiple million user
> installations that run happily on linux + postfix (and sendmail,
> qmail..).
> 
> None that run on one server running webmin, even a 3U server.
> 
>> or layered as stages within a new system design based on GPU's which
>> allow for the specific assignment of threads of control to specific
>> processes. Imaging a cloud type environment running in a single GPU with
>> the abililty to properly map threads to GPU threads.
> 
> You don't have "single" of anything at all for large and well scaled
> environments.
> 
>> OK our server is 3U but that was because I wanted bigger fans inside
>> it... The 1U single TESLA based email GW is exactly what you describe -
>> a 512 thread CUDA based GPU with serious capabilities therein.
> 
> So how many users do you run on that one 3U box?  100K?  300K?  A
> couple of million?  :)
> 
> The man said carrier class.  And when you talk that you dont just talk
> features, you talk operations on a rather larger scale than what
> you're describing.
> 
> --srs