From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Jan 29 09:08:42 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA10385 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 09:08:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from leaf.lumiere.net (leaf.lumiere.net [207.218.152.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA10375 for ; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 09:08:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from j@leaf.lumiere.net) Received: (from j@localhost) by leaf.lumiere.net (8.9.2/8.9.1) id JAA33313; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 09:08:27 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 09:08:26 -0800 (PST) From: Jesse To: "Gary D. Margiotta" 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 Hi Gary, > 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. Why disk? I would expect there to be hardly any disk activity, assuming you're not swapping. > 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. Thanks for the suggestion -- several people have pointed me towards postfix so I'll definitely be taking a look at it. > 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. Ah -- I don't expect to be doing any local deliveries, maybe that was the disk factor you were counting in? I'll be be reusing a machinwe we have now which is a PII 333, with 256M RAM and a 9gig 7200rpm HD or building a new one which would be an AMD K6-2 400 with 256M RAM and a 9gig IDE drive (probably two, actually, for software raid redundancy). Thanks a bunch for your suggestions. It's greatly appreciated. --- Jesse Shrieve j@lumiere.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message