Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 20:53:02 -0600 From: Tim <tim@sleepy.wojomedia.com> To: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: qmail (Was: Maintaining Access Control Lists ) Message-ID: <20020329025302.GA2581@sleepy.wojomedia.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0203281243060.18673-100000@pilchuck.reedmedia.net> References: <20020328203704.GA760@lpt.ens.fr> <Pine.LNX.4.43.0203281243060.18673-100000@pilchuck.reedmedia.net>
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This is very dated. It says "[qmail] Version 1.00 will be freely distributable." 1.03 was released in 1998, I believe. For those that care, Dan hasn't updated this page recently. He did take Terry's suggestion and remove "against qmail/djbdns" on the other pages (now just _Brad Knowles's Slander_, for example). Tim On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 12:55:59PM -0800, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > In > > http://cr.yp.to/qmail/jackson.html > DJB says "The largest Exim host is doing a mere 50000 deliveries per day." > > The publically available Exim users mailing list archives show a lot > more. For example: > > "... we use an old SparcStation 20 to ship around 60,000 emails a day and > according to the exim stats 98% of those are shipped in under a minute. > The load average on the machine is next to nothing to the extent that I > get paranoid if it ever approaches one." > (<20000714095714.E17070@apple.ukc.ac.uk>) > > "... My server processes 50,000 to 100,000 messages a day and every one > of those passes through a filter that currently contains 200 rules, > mostly regex matches (checks for worms and viruses, scores potential > spam, etc.) Server load hovers around 0.30 (FreeBSD, Pentium III 400MHz) > with the odd "spike" to 1.0 or so." > (<m15gs9c-000FaGC@island.islandnet.com>) > > "Under exim, I put about 5GB (bytes not bits) from one machine between > 8pm and 9am. That is over one million outbound emails in 12 hours. You > do the math. That is a lot of traffic and is on a small dual processor > PIII with a single SCSI disk (no stripe for the spool). ..." > (<396C78B5.4D54B104@cnds.jhu.edu>) > > (The same admin also says:) > "... We deliver about 1.5 million message/day on any given machine. > But, we don't push mail between 11am and 8pm (only 8pm to 11am)." > > There are many other documented. > > Someone should make a "DJB's slander (his word) against ..." > > Jeremy C. Reed > http://www.reedmedia.net/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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