Sthitaprajna saw fit to inform LI that:
>QMail is prolly fine for BIG servers...when I tried it on my home
>setup, I had a big problem..like if I sent a mail to multiple(n)
qmail basically opens a _new_ smtp connection for every mail delivered to
a domain. I've known sendmail boxes to rapidly reach their connection
limit and slow down when a listserver running qmail attempts to deliver
mail ...
fix: just set
o ConnectionRateThrottle
o MaxDaemonChildren
in sendmail.cf
>Exim's nice and easily configured too...try the exmh MUA...it is just
>marvellous. I was a Gnus follower, but have converted lately.
Lovely. exmh is actually an Extended X Mail Handler (a frontend for the
mh mailer / mailbox format). We run mh folders with sendmail as the mta
here at my office (and read it using pine / mutt, or a customized java
based mailer developed inhouse)
>> The Bat book (Allman and Costales O'Reilly version) is for 8.8.8 - and is
>> quite outdated. Still comprehensive, but sendmail has changed a lot. It
>
>ORA is supposed to bring out a new bat soon, they definitely are
>bringing out a new "Camel" book
Looking forward to both. Both these are old, and need a _lot_ of change.
>I gave up on sendmail long back...mean, I never got around to work
>properly on my system:-)
It works perfectly, given default settings and an rpm based install.
Quite easy to use imho. I also run a production sendmail on a solaris box
- it is quite robust. Never tried exim or postfix on prod servers (too
lazy to take down the server, patch in a new mta, blah, blah ... while
several irate users keep asking wtf is going on and why they can't
forward chain mail to each other).
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