From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 14 17:12:31 2004 Return-Path: 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 406DE16A4CE for ; Fri, 14 May 2004 17:12:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mygirlfriday.info (user204.net795.mo.sprint-hsd.net [65.41.216.204]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 230BC43D3F for ; Fri, 14 May 2004 17:12:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gv-mailed@mygirlfriday.info) Received: (qmail 33120 invoked from network); 15 May 2004 00:12:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mygirlfriday.info) (192.168.0.5) by mongo.mygirlfriday.info with SMTP; 15 May 2004 00:12:28 -0000 Received: (qmail 5359 invoked by uid 500); 15 May 2004 00:12:28 -0000 Message-ID: <20040515001228.5358.qmail@letric.mygirlfriday.info> Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 19:12:28 -0500 From: Gary To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <001301c43a0b$2ae8d610$2248abcd@LEOPARD> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <001301c43a0b$2ae8d610$2248abcd@LEOPARD> Organization: Hardly User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Subject: Re: TeaPOP pop3 server. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 00:12:31 -0000 On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 04:28:31PM -0700 or thereabouts, Richard Marriner wrote: > I am not sure of where to ask this question, but I have just recently > finished configuring Postfix:Virtual:SMTPAUTH+MySQL+TeaPOP and it works > great. Fortunatly (maybe unfortunately) it is on a test server. Our main > mail server (which we are planning to implement this technology to) is > currently running Postfix:SMTPAUTH+Qpopper. okay.. > My questions is whether or not the Postfix+MySQL+TeaPOP system is secure > and fast enough to put on a medium to high traffic production server > with approx. 3500 accounts. should be without any problem.. 3500 accounts is not a lot of mail, really, and is really not considered a "high traffic" email server. When you get over 20-30 emails/sec.. 1200-1800 / minute ... or over 100,000 emails an hour, that is getting to be a high traffic server postfix/mysql no problem handling what you need. I am not familiar with TeaPOP, and in looking at their site, they have been out for a few years, and I have not come across any prior security history problems with them, that I have heard, unlike Qpopper, which has a very real history of security issues.. I would say, give it a go... on high volume servers, the focal area of concern is disk I/O, as this will be your slowest area. -- Gary