From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Mar 25 22:27:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from riker.skynet.be (riker.skynet.be [195.238.3.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E670E37B41A for ; Mon, 25 Mar 2002 22:27:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from [10.0.1.8] (ip-27.shub-internet.org [194.78.144.27] (may be forged)) by riker.skynet.be (8.11.6/8.11.6/Skynet-OUT-2.16) with ESMTP id g2Q6RRr04194; Tue, 26 Mar 2002 07:27:27 +0100 (MET) (envelope-from ) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bs663385@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <3C9FB4FA.6956C219@mindspring.com> References: <20020323002608.B20699@rain.macguire.net> <3C9C84CF.2090300@flash.net> <20020323084327.A354@rain.macguire.net> <3C9DF87D.5050306@cream.org> <000c01c1d3ab$6d2c6960$6600a8c0@penguin> <3C9F1EF6.CB28EDD7@mindspring.com> <3C9FB4FA.6956C219@mindspring.com> X-Grok: +++ath X-WebTV-Stationery: Standard; BGColor=black; TextColor=black Reply-By: Wed, 1 Jan 1984 12:34:56 +0100 X-Message-Flag: Outlook : A program to spread viri via e-mail. Try Eudora (http://www.eudora.com/), mutt (http://www.mutt.org/), or pine (http://www.washington.edu/pine/). But please, get something other than Outlook. Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 07:04:45 +0100 To: Terry Lambert , Brad Knowles From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: qmail (Was: Maintaining Access Control Lists ) Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , Taylor Dondich , chat@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 3:38 PM -0800 2002/03/25, Terry Lambert wrote: > With them in place, we handled as much email as Best Internet's > primary list server handled in a month in just under 48 hours, > on one 166 MHz dual processor PPC box (our test box), with > 10,000 virtual domains, 5,000 using ETRN/ATRN, and 5,000 > acting as "queue-only" only in the case of an outage of the > primary mail server for the domain. That's over half a million > 10k messages every 24 hours. We had much the same situation with our "business" SMTP server, handling roughly 40,000 120KB messages per day. Of course, a smaller number of larger messages is easier to handle (less synchronous meta-data overhead), but on the other hand I had not yet configured the server to have a mail queue per domain. -- Brad Knowles, Do you hate Microsoft? Do you hate Outlook? Then visit the Anti-Outlook page at and see how much fun you can have. "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message