Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 15:08:12 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> To: Scott Pilz <tech@squid.tznet.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Mail Servers On Free-BSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0101271507220.577-100000@thelab.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10101291131280.98370-100000@squid.tznet.com>
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I would recommend looking at Cyrus-IMAPd myself, which is designed for
both secure mail (no users on the machine, only mailboxes) as well as
large numbers of mailboxes ...
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Scott Pilz wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
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