Quoth J C Lawrence on Thu, Oct 29, 1998:
> On Fri, 30 Oct 1998 03:40:28 +0200
> Vadim Vygonets<vadik@???> wrote:
> > 3. Get an old 486, install a kind of UNIX on it, put it under
> > your table so nobody will know, and install Exim on it. You
> > will need to get some SIMMs for 486, though.
>
> For those interested I'e found that an i486-33 with 8Meg of RAM and a
> Gig or so of disk (a box generally purchasable for about US$50 on the
> second hand market) can easily handle the mail losd from a mid-size
> (few hundred employees == <100,000 messages per day).
A sysadmin's hint: RAM is more important than processor speed.
> Heck -- I've also run leafnode news servers on the same box along with
> Exim and had them work fine.
You need a lot of disk space.
> One ruse it to run X, and use a GIF'ed version of winnt.bmp as the
> root image. Rumour has it that it will fool most managers...
See my other post for reasons why not to do it.
Vadik.
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