From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 30 13:22: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E08A937B401 for ; Sat, 30 Nov 2002 13:21:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from nostromo.brian-jackson.net (pool-64-223-151-72.man.east.verizon.net [64.223.151.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C9CD143ECD for ; Sat, 30 Nov 2002 13:21:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from b.k.jackson@verizon.net) Received: (qmail 86029 invoked from network); 30 Nov 2002 21:21:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO verizon.net) (192.168.1.97) by 0 with SMTP; 30 Nov 2002 21:21:49 -0000 Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 16:21:49 -0500 Subject: Re: Mail Server Advice Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v548) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org To: "Ber Ez" From: Brian Jackson In-Reply-To: <20021129051721.52167.qmail@mail.com> Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.548) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, November 29, 2002, at 12:17 AM, Ber Ez wrote: > Hi to all, > I need to build a mail server , I have won the battle of weather to > use FreeBSD or Linux or M$ . > now i'm facing a new battle ,postfix vs qmail. > I need your advice . > which of the two would be faster on freebsd ? > any optimaization tips ? > the system will handle a few mailing lists of 30,000+ subscribers ( > news letters ,not a discussion list ) and over 20,000 users. > I am thinking of load balancing this between three servers and am > looking for info on that as well. > thanks > Ber . > -- qmail (http://www.qmail.org) with ezmlm (http://www.ezmlm.org) and the ezmlm-idx patch (also on http://www.ezmlm.org) make an excellent, easy to administer, and secure mailing list solution. (note that ezmlm-idx will also give you the ability to create html archives) Inter7 has a brilliant virtual hosting and web mail platform for qmail as well (http://www.inter7.com). With all that said, I have no experience with postfix - but I have had much success with qmail and its addons. Brian -- Brian Jackson b.k.jackson@verizon.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message