From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Jan 30 02:20:09 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA09668 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Sat, 30 Jan 1999 02:20:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from xwin.nmhtech.com (xwin.nmhtech.com [208.138.46.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA09651 for ; Sat, 30 Jan 1999 02:20:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nicole@xwin.nmhtech.com) Received: by xwin.nmhtech.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 936AB2EE1A; Sat, 30 Jan 1999 02:20:01 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 02:20:01 -0800 (PST) From: Nicole Harrington To: "Gary D. Margiotta" Subject: Re: mailing lists Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG, Jesse Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id CAA09660 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 29-Jan-99 My Secret Spies Reported That Gary D. Margiotta wrote: > 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. > Postfix would definatly be a better choice since it works with majordomo without any changes. Qmail takes a bit more work. Nicole > ______________________________________________________________ > -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 |\ __ /| (`\ | o_o |__ ) ) // \\ nicole@nmhtech.com | http://www.webweaver.net/ webmistress@dangermouse.org | http://www.dangermouse.org -------------------------(((---(((----------------------- - Powered by Coka Cola and FreeBSD - - Stong enough for a man - But made for a Woman - - I'm not ADD - I'm just MultiThreaded - - Microsoft: What bug would you like today? - ---------------------------------------------------------- SYSADMIN(1) Sysadmin is the keeper of all things computer, is generally harangued, must be supplied with caffine, chocolate, and sushi in order to function properly, cannot be exposed to direct sunlight, and must not be allowed to have a life. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message