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On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Steve Sobol wrote: > In light of the recent thread about a carrier-class mail server, and > since I don't have the > address of the mailing list mentioned there, I was wondering how people > felt about Exim. > > I apologize in advance to those NANOG readers who are going to yell at > me about > operational content, but I couldn't come up with a better mailing list > to send this to. > > I've installed Exim. I like what I've seen so far. Robust, lots of > features... and I was > mightily impressed when my out-of-the-box RPM installation passed all of > abuse.net's > spam relay tests. > > So... Can Exim handle large queues, and delivery to tens of thousands of > mailboxes? > (I'm not at the point where I'd need that kind of scalability yet, but I > don't want to have > to switch mail servers any time soon.) I think exim is great - logical design, really full-featured, and very very fast. I've used it at a number of my jobs, and never had any significant problems with it. I'm actually very disappointed that more people aren't familiar with it. I've used it in multi-thousand message queues, receiving hundreds of thousands of messages a day. Plus, it's real easy to set up a clustered configuration using maildir, etc. With a good config, a load balancer, and nas storage, you could run a pile of smtp servers off of one centralized config. Thanks, Matt -- Matthew J. Zito Systems Engineer Register.com, Inc., 11th Floor, 575 8th Avenue, New York, NY 10018 Ph: 212-798-9205 PGP Key Fingerprint: 4E AC E1 0B BE DD 7D BC D2 06 B2 B0 BF 55 68 99
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