Author: Giuliano Gavazzi Date: To: exim-users Subject: Re: [exim] server hardware for exim in Italy
At 9:30 am +0100 2004/12/15, Giuliano Gavazzi wrote: >Dear all, this is perhaps not completely IT.
>
>I am looking for a supplier of good server harware (with hardware
>support contract) for running exim in a small setup (less than 100
>users) but requiring optimum reliability (hardware raid mirroring,
>hot swap, perhaps multiple power supplies). I am going to run a BSD
>flavour (FreeBSD most likely).
>I cannot find any one in Italy.
>Any suggestion from the italians on the list?
>
>Otherwise I should probably go for an Apple solution (and not
>necessarily the Xserve, I think the tower G5 are built well enough,
>even without hot-swap...)
>
well, no reply, perhaps was not enough of a RTFM type of question to
be asked on this list...
I decided the best option is probably to get use a cheap PC running
exim on FreeBSD as a front end server (scanning, spam scoring and
rejection) relaying all local mail to the internal XServe (running
MacOSX and postfix, as it comes as standard with, I guess, all the
GUI, non for me..., to manage lusers).
I can then check for local users with a recipient callout. I should
get reliability (the XServe being configured with hardware RAID) and
security (the mailstore and other sensitive data are (almost)
completely insulated from the outside network. Yes, one can break
into the ouside server and attack the inside one from there...
