BMITU

Sun Sep 7 02:00:09 UTC 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 
<rbridgham at hvdata.net> 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: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu]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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labeled `occupant.'"
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