From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Jan 30 07:22:54 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA02836 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Sat, 30 Jan 1999 07:22:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from biceps.gymnet.com (biceps.gymnet.com [204.216.82.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id HAA02822 for ; Sat, 30 Jan 1999 07:22:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rwl@gymnet.com) Message-Id: <199901301522.HAA02822@hub.freebsd.org> Received: (qmail 24821 invoked from network); 30 Jan 1999 15:22:10 -0000 Received: from triceps.gymnet.com (HELO triceps) (204.216.82.51) by biceps.gymnet.com with SMTP; 30 Jan 1999 15:22:10 -0000 From: "Robert Luce" To: "Nicole Harrington" Cc: "freebsd-isp@freebsd.org" Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 07:22:39 -0800 Reply-To: "Robert Luce" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows 98 (4.10.1998) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: Re: mailing lists Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id HAA02832 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 30 Jan 1999 02:20:01 -0800 (PST), Nicole Harrington wrote: > >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 Ah, but qmail integrates perfectly with ezmlm and ezmlm-idx and that combo allows users to create their own mailing lists or lets you create global lists with one or two command lines, is much less resource intensive and is amazingly fast. I've been using qmail+ezmlm for well over a year and I would never go back to majordomo. ---- Robert Luce "Il faut supporter deux ou trois chenilles System/News Administrator si on veut connaŒtre les papillons.." - Antoine de Saint-Exup‚ry Finger rwl@gymnet.com for PGP Public Key Block To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message