From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 28 23:03:03 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6938516A4FE for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 23:03:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mortis.over-yonder.net (adsl-12-42-198.jan.bellsouth.net [65.12.42.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 918D843D5C for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 23:03:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fullermd@over-yonder.net) Received: by mortis.over-yonder.net (Postfix, from userid 100) id ECEBC20F21; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 18:02:58 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 18:02:58 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: jim.durham@nepinc.com Message-ID: <20050428230258.GG81486@over-yonder.net> References: <200504281032.33822.jimd@nepinc.com> <20050428144619.GA8412@energistic.com> <200504281334.48362.jimd@nepinc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200504281334.48362.jimd@nepinc.com> X-Editor: vi X-OS: FreeBSD User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i-fullermd.2 cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mail Server recommendations X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 23:03:03 -0000 On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 01:34:48PM -0400 I heard the voice of Jim Durham, and lo! it spake thus: > > One thing that I have considered also is having a 'plain vanilla' > sendmail installation that folks POP from and do all the scanning on > a set of load-balanced machines and then they just relay it to the > POP machine. Something like that... I would (well, not with sendmail, but... 8-). You've got a set of tasks [the mailboxes] that aren't all that heavy, and are hard to parallelize, and a set of tasks [the scanning] that are insanely heavy and easy to parallelize. I mean, it's like getting a personal message from Olympus to split these tasks along the bright neon lines! -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream.