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Take a look at the Mirapoint mail appliances at http://www.mirapoint.com/. 99.999% reliability and scalable up the wazoo.

What is Hardware email?

This company sells a dedicated appliance containing hardware and embedded software to act as a spam-filtering e-mail server.

Have the invented an E-mail accelerator chip now?

I'd imagine that some companies either are looking into or have already introduced accelerator ASICs for the Bayesian filtering and other algorithms in their e-mail server appliances.

It's actually on the rise.

http://www.nu.nl/news.jsp?n=556966&c=50&rss

http://www.mirapoint.com/company/news_events/press /20050712.shtml

Go go gadget Mirapoint Message Server.

We have just installed a new Mirapoint mail system. The frontend message router (MD450) handles anti-virus and anti-spam scanning. We started getting hit with MyDoom at at 11am local time (GMT+10) yesterday. So far over 1.5 days we have blocked about 300,000 MyDoom messages. The load on the new Mirapoint message director is minimal. Our normal message load before this was 60-70,000 emails per day.

If this load had hit our old servers we would have been waiting a week to get any legitimate mail through!

Buy a turnkey solution. One platform that I have had lots of luck with is Mirapoint. They have boxes to fill every need from small boxes up to large enterprise installations. When I worked at Cisco they had over half their email on Mirapoint boxes. They had a few IMAP issues several years ago but after I gave them the problem description, client software information, and a reference to where they were not following the RFC's they came out with a patch in fairly short order.

Check out Cyrus, from Carnegie Mellon, which is gratis (but not free).

Or maybe you'd like to spend some money. Then there are lots of companies, like Mirapoint, who I work for.