Maybe I am the least person you may wish to ask but a thought -- why not simply have one machine do both incoming and outgoing email; and the second machine to do mass mailings?
The other suggestion I have (again don't hit me for my lack of intelligence) is to put your mass mailing machine on a FreeBSD box after tweaking the FreeBSD kernel to create a larger(maximum perhaps) number of inodes. In my personal experience the larger the number in the queue(and hence inodes) the better is the performance of the Qmail/FreeBSD combine. And knowing you a bit I would say it can be done locally. Suresh: Does this sound ok? Regards, RKA >===== Original Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED] ===== >I am about to get a opportunity to setup a email solution and would like >some feedback. The current setup is as follows. > >1. Two servers running Qmail one to handle inbound traffic and another >to handle outbound traffic. I believe two copies of qmail cant run on a >single server. If any one has been able to do that do let me know. > >2. A third server running Qmail to handle the mass mailings (yes I know >the difference between mass mailing and spamming). > >3. I wont have control over the inbound traffic in the sense that I have >existing users in maildir format to migrate. > >4. I believe it wont improve anything if I move out from qmail on the >outbound traffic on either of the servers. > >5. The outbound mailserver and the mass mailling server will not be >stand alone servers and would be serving other non mail related >functions too. > >Now following my own previous posting I should be probably be taking on >Suresh as a consultant [probably cant afford Raj Mathur either ;)] but I >am hoping I will get some thoughts and ideas without doing that :). > > > >Mithun > > ================================================ >To subscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with subscribe in subject header >To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header >Archives are available at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org > ================================================= ================================================ To subscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with subscribe in subject header To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header Archives are available at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org =================================================
