Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 11:40:36 -0600 (CST) From: Scott Pilz <tech@squid.tznet.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Mail Servers On Free-BSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10101291131280.98370-100000@squid.tznet.com>
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I e-mailed Procmail's lists, and got a few answers, but I would like to hear what other BSD-users/coders have to say, as they have helped me out so much in the past. We need a new mail server. BSD platform, that will handle over 10k users. I do *want* to run Sendmail. As I am somewhat familer with it's inner workings. I have tried QMail's SMTP however I just, ... do not like it (perhaps I do not know it, perhaps I do not want to know it, but it's just not in my taste right now). I have been told, that you do not want to run QPopper. It is soposedly very very slow. Now, I have seen this in fact. A SunOS server with QPopper and sendmail -- they have all mail in /var/mail, and their mail server IS slow. Well, it's no wonder that it is slow, as they have over 9k users in /var/mail. Would that not slow down I/O to the point where it is noticible? In QPopper, there is a way to make the structure like this: /var/mail/a/a/ /var/mail/a/b/ /var/mail/a/c/ etc. so that the user 'test' would be put in: /var/mail/t/e/test However, the local mail delivery agent, in this case procmail, I do not belives supports this, so it's not going to work. I was told by ProcMail's list that I should run qmail-pop3d as my pop3 server, and on top of that, was told that is mearly because of the I/O speed in /var/mail if everyone is there. HOWEVER.. In Qpopper and procmail, I can set it in such a way that they will be delivered to their home directory instead: /var/mail/t/test <- Home for all t's /var/mail/a/apple <-Home for all a's etc. Would this not basically do the exact same thing? Making things faster? Now let me tell you the box that I will have running ... (maybe /var/mail/$user won't be so bad on this box anywyas? You let me know).. 800mhz PIII 1g Ram, SCSI ultra-fast drives ... Thanks. -Scott To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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