From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 29 14:39:10 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 50E0116A4CE for ; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 14:39:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pgh.nepinc.com (pgh.nepinc.com [66.207.129.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5CA843D5D for ; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 14:39:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jimd@nepinc.com) Received: from pptp8.pgh.nepinc.com (pptp8.pgh.nepinc.com [192.168.97.208]) (authenticated bits=0) by pgh.nepinc.com (8.12.11/8.12.8) with ESMTP id j3TEcvKI019824; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 10:38:57 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jimd@nepinc.com) From: Jim Durham Organization: NEP Supershooters To: "Matthew D. Fuller" Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 10:38:55 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <200504281032.33822.jimd@nepinc.com> <200504281334.48362.jimd@nepinc.com> <20050428230258.GG81486@over-yonder.net> In-Reply-To: <20050428230258.GG81486@over-yonder.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200504291038.56086.jimd@nepinc.com> cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org cc: jim.durham@nepinc.com Subject: Re: Mail Server recommendations X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: jim.durham@nepinc.com List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 14:39:10 -0000 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