[colug-432] Fully Featured email server

[Pat Collins]

On Wed, 15 May 2013 09:44:48 -0400 Rob Funk <rfunk at funknet.net> wrote

> On Wednesday, May 15, 2013 07:32:28 AM Aaron Howard wrote:
> > Out of general curiosity, do any of these solutions work well on low end
> > systems? For instance, a 64MB vps?
> 
> 64MB would be a little low, but you might get the basics (SMTP + POP/IMAP,
> command-line and file-based management). Things like spamassassin and
> clamav would have to be skipped though; those take a lot of memory.
> 
> I've been running my setup on a Linode virtual server for a few years now.
> It's the cheapest they offer ($20/month), and was 512MB until they doubled
> everyone's memory recently. ClamAV and Spamassassin used huge percentages
> of that 512MB (e.g. 20% for one clamav process). I'm also running MySQL and

For $4 a month more I have a vps @ramnode with 2GB ram, 4 vcpu, 30GB ssd.

Pat