Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 10:38:55 -0400 From: Jim Durham <jimd@nepinc.com> To: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> Cc: jim.durham@nepinc.com Subject: Re: Mail Server recommendations Message-ID: <200504291038.56086.jimd@nepinc.com> In-Reply-To: <20050428230258.GG81486@over-yonder.net> References: <200504281032.33822.jimd@nepinc.com> <200504281334.48362.jimd@nepinc.com> <20050428230258.GG81486@over-yonder.net>
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On Thursday 28 April 2005 07:02 pm, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > 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! I see...and I hear!!! (Awfully Bright...could we back off the neon a little? ) 8-) . Now, to find the time betwen fixing XP problems... Thanks! -- Jim Durham IT Engineer NEP Supershooters 2 Beta Dr. Pittsburgh, PA 15238 412-826-1414
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