From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 19 13:02:14 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D813106567F for ; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:02:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from robby@grab.co.za) Received: from qmail.entry.co.za (pdns.entry.co.za [196.211.91.250]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 501BA8FC20 for ; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:02:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from robby@grab.co.za) Received: (qmail 69456 invoked by uid 1011); 19 Aug 2008 12:55:56 -0000 Received: from 192.168.1.33 by qmail.entry.co.za (envelope-from , uid 1009) with qmail-scanner-1.25-st-qms (clamdscan: 0.87/7662. spamassassin: 3.0.4. perlscan: 1.25-st-qms. Clear:RC:1(192.168.1.33):. Processed in 0.066404 secs); 19 Aug 2008 12:55:56 -0000 X-Antivirus-qmail.entry.co.za-Mail-From: robby@grab.co.za via qmail.entry.co.za X-Antivirus-qmail.entry.co.za: 1.25-st-qms (Clear:RC:1(192.168.1.33):. Processed in 0.066404 secs Process 69450) Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.33?) (192.168.1.33) by qmail.entry.co.za with SMTP; 19 Aug 2008 12:55:56 -0000 Message-ID: <48AAC44E.9050905@grab.co.za> Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:02:06 +0200 From: Robby Balona User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071008) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <90B9B014E38B4C48A792EFD25F27624E023E9166@ALAFEXCH.performance.pfgc.com> <89C1A7EE-291E-4A72-957C-59FC9A6316A8@identry.com> <48AAC019.5040409@grab.co.za> <48AAC3E2.1050902@ibctech.ca> In-Reply-To: <48AAC3E2.1050902@ibctech.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Best SMTP Gateway Program and Reporting Tools X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:02:14 -0000 Steve Bertrand wrote: > Robby Balona wrote: > >> I love qmail also.. but didn't do well under heavy smtp load in my >> environment. I put qmail +vpopmail + qmailadmin >> +clamav+dovecot+spamassasin + assap +squirrelmail together. > > I use Qmail on almost all of our SMTP servers. On the ones that only > house a couple hundred email addresses, your setup works flawlessly in > our environment. > > On the boxes with 10k+ email accounts, I do away with all of the > filtering stuff, and front-end the Qmail/Vpopmail boxes with third > party appliances. > > From what I can tell, it's the filtering processes that are the > bottleneck under heavy load. Take them out of the equation and load is > no longer an issue. > > Just my .02. > > Steve > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Yep you are right , spamassasin's perl munched up processors and created havoc .