On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 10:26:40 -0800 Ken Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ** This message is being resubmitted from the modperl discussion > ** mailing list. Someone suggested that we should write an article > ** about using Apache as a mail proxy -- anyone know how we can get > ** that done? > > We have been using mod_perl successfully for several months now as a > flexible email proxy -- we just wrapped Net::Server::Mail and with a > few additional hacks and it worked. Matt Sergeant did the same thing > with qpsmtpd and I have heard that the performance results were > initially very promising > (http://msgs.securepoint.com/cgi-bin/get/qmail0411/120/1/1/1.html). > > More details of our hack (patches etc.) are at > http://www.mailchannels.com/opensource and > http://search.cpan.org/~mock/Apache-SMTP-0.01/lib/Apache/SMTP.pm. > > IMHO, using mod_perl as a general application server is a great > idea. For us there really was no other viable alternative. We looked > at POE, Sendmail's milter API, Net::Server and of course qpsmtpd but > the reliability, portability, and scalability of Apache was what > caused us to go through the effort of making our bits work on > mod_perl. > > To configure a mail server, it's just a matter of adding a VirtualHost > section to the Apache configuration et voila. And as packages such as > mod_throttle move over to Apache 2, we will gain the wonderment of a > solid resource management tool for mail traffic. Joy! It should be pretty easy to get that article on perl.com. If you just want to write a small success story for http://perl.apache.org we can put that up as well. --------------------------------- Frank Wiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.wiles.org --------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
