[ale] NUC vs. RPi mail server

[Boris Borisov]

I think RPI will do it but with spinning drive. Will choke on flash memory
transfers.

On Friday, December 12, 2014, Ted W. <ted-lists at xy0.org> wrote:

> On 12/11/2014 04:06 PM, Alex Carver wrote:
>
>> Good question.  Most troublesome IP ranges are dropped at the router
>> ahead of the machine.  Any IP range that I can't outright drop are
>> usually managed by the RBL lookups performed during HELO/EHLO plus a few
>> ACLs running to clean up some other problem issues (missing FQDN,
>> attempt to use localhost as the HELO/EHLO host, etc.)  I don't run
>> spamassassin on my current server.
>>
>> I have many aliases set up on the machine but for the most part it's
>> been relatively clear of spam (maybe two to three messages per week
>> sneak through) except for the alias that AT&T managed to somehow leak to
>> the outside world (a unique alias based on randomly generated text from
>> pwgen).
>>
>> I'm looking at this again since the current machine just experienced
>> another issue with its hard drive.  I'm going to need to take it down
>> this weekend to boot from a live CD to do a scan of the drive but I'm
>> thinking another (quieter) machine might worth an upgrade.  The current
>> system is a 233 MHz P2.  Most of its noise is the hard drive and power
>> supply fan (the processor doesn't have a fan, just a heatsink).
>>
>> On 2014-12-11 12:28, Horkan Smith wrote:
>>
>>> How's your spam situation look?
>>>
>>> A few years ago, my approx 1GHz Pentium-something? server was spending
>>> too much cpu filtering messages in spamassassin, even after moving to
>>> spamc.  Granted, my mail email address escaped to the spam world a while
>>> ago, and I also tend to accept lots of aliased addresses.
>>>
>>> There were other drivers (I wanted to play w/ virtual machines more),
>>> but I swapped to a then-current 4-core AMD Phenom 9650 and was much happier.
>>>
>>> later!
>>>     horkan
>>>
>>> On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 11:53:13AM -0800, Alex Carver wrote:
>>>
>>>> For a personal mail server that doesn't handle much traffic (less than
>>>> 100 messages per day), which would you consider/choose: a NUC or an RPi?
>>>>   Mostly headless operation (except for getting console to do
>>>> maintenance
>>>> when remote won't work) with a very basic install (no GUI).
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> I've been thinking on this very topic for a few weeks now myself. I'm
> currently hosting my mail server on a super economy RackSpace cloud
> instance that has the same specs (256MB RAM, 10GB disk, single proc) as a
> RaspberryPi and it runs fine there. Granted, I can count the number of spam
> messages I receive per month on one hand... A NUC sounds like overkill IMO.
> If you think you more power to handle some additional functionality, check
> out the BeagleBone Black or BananaPi. Both are just slightly more expensive
> with much better processors and more RAM. I've been interested in the
> BananaPi for some time as it's the same board as the Model B RPi with a
> SATA controller, GigE, a better processor and more RAM.
>
> Cheers,
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