Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 18:04:00 -0500 From: "shivak" <shivak@shivakaul.com> To: "Scott Pilz" <tech@squid.tznet.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Mail Servers On Free-BSD Message-ID: <003601c088b5$6f7d13a0$0200a8c0@taco> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10101291131280.98370-100000@squid.tznet.com>
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I have a 200mhz pentium pro w/ 384 mb ram and a few SCSI disks running as a mail server. It runs *very* fast. It has FreeBSD, qmail-smtp, and qmail-pop3d. The Qmail daemons support a great new format of mailbox's called Maildir (the mail for a user goes under ~/Maildir/). This approach solves the speed problem, and also boasts increased security and reliability. Of course, this is a setup that makes concessions for users that actually login. As far as qmail goes, it works great - I find everything about it superior to sendmail...I think it is missing a few features, but they are certainly not *that* important as my setup works flawlessly. Hope this helps. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Pilz" <tech@squid.tznet.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 12:40 PM Subject: Mail Servers On Free-BSD > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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