From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Jan 29 09:02:54 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA09487 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 09:02:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from solo.tcdesigns.com ([216.25.158.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA09478 for ; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 09:02:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gary@tbe.net) Received: (qmail 11653 invoked from network); 29 Jan 1999 17:05:30 -0000 Received: from solo.tcdesigns.com (gary@216.25.158.6) by solo.tcdesigns.com with SMTP; 29 Jan 1999 17:05:30 -0000 Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 12:05:30 -0500 (EST) From: "Gary D. Margiotta" X-Sender: gary@solo.tcdesigns.com To: Jesse cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mailing lists In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jesse, The biggest problem you'll run into with mailing lists is disk speed. Processor speed is negligible, but memory should be decent. Also, if you want speed, drop sendmail in favor of a replacement MTA: qmail and postfix being two of them. I've had most of my experiences with qmail, and it is a decent replacement, but we are loking to switch to postfix due to its configurability. Postfix resembles sendmail and uses the same sort of configuration files, and if you are already familiar with sendmail, that would be the best way to go. From first tests, postfix seems to work just as well, if not better than qmail. With either MTA, you'll be able to move several hundred thousand local emails daily, as long as you have a decent amount of memory, and a fast drive. My reccomendation would be a PII-350 (just for the 100MHz FSB), 128MB RAM (maybe 256 if you feel like it), and two seprate drives in the system, maybe a 2- or 4-GB for your system partitions (IBM LP drives are good, 6.5 ms, 7200RPM), and a 10,000 RPM Cheetah or the likes for your /var/mail partition. Run postfix, and you should have no problems. ______________________________________________________________ -Gary Margiotta Voice: (973) 835-7855 TBE Internet Services Fax: (973) 835-4755 http://www.tbe.net E-Mail: gary@tbe.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message