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RE: BMITU

  • From: Michael Loftis
  • Date: Sat Sep 06 22:03:44 2003


Qmail doesn't scale well with large injection rates. Qmail scaling in that sort of manner is completely dependant upon the filesystem. Now this may have changed, but not that long back everything in submission was in one dir, processing in another dir, just like sendmail (by default) does. This caused the queue manager to stuff up something wicked at high injection rates.

--On Friday, September 05, 2003 2:23 PM -0400 Robert Bridgham <[email protected]> wrote:

I have been a UNIX geek for quite a few years and in that time I have had
the pleasure or displeasure of working with many mail packages.  The 2
that I had the most exposure to was Sendmail and Qmail.  Now barring any
flames about sendmail, once I had exposure to Qmail I will never turned
back. Qmail was developed with security in mind, it has never had a
security bug in the years it has been available, it is scalable, reliable
and easy to administrate.  Now I will not bore you with every spec or
detail about how it runs but even Hotmail.com uses Qmail as it's MTA.
This the one of the leading webmail sites in the world with between
80-100million accounts, and still running strong.  I would definitely put
my vote to Qmail for any organization, any size!

- Robert Bridgham

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of
Fisher, Shawn
Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 11:03 AM
To: Nanog List (E-mail)
Subject: BMITU



This is my first post so please be gentle.

I would like to get some opinions on the Best Mailserver in
the Universe.
Is there a more appropriate list for this question?

I have looked at Communigate Pro, IMAIL, and others.

I am interested in integrated solution that can scale to handle 500k
accounts

Any experience good / bad would be great.

Thanks

/SF




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