[ale] NUC vs. RPi mail server

[Alex Carver]

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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