[Mimedefang] Size and scaling questions

[David F. Skoll]

On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Raymond Smith wrote:

> I work for a large company, who my mail admins are telling me that in order
> to use Mimedefang and Spam Assassin we need to reconfigure our Mail Servers
> (Sun, E450, 1GB RAM) to include a RAM Disk.

This is always a good thing to do, especially on Solaris whose file systems
are somewhat more conservative (i.e., safer) than Linux.

You can mount /var/spool/MIMEDefang as a tmpfs file system.  Make
sure you have enough RAM and swap space; someone else posted sizing tips.

--
David.