+++ Devdas Bhagat [linux-india] <11/03/02 00:03 +0530>:
> Exim or postfix. Sendmail is slow. Unless the newer versions have done a
> major speed increase.
You wouldn't believe the speed increase with a well tuned sendmail install.
Besides, 8.12.x does pipelining ... which qmail / postfix / exim have also
been doing. Speeds things up, sort of.
> > locally on our MXs, but handoff to an internal cluster of qmail boxes, we
> > prefer sendmail, as qmail kind of sucks on inbound delivery.
> Incoming MTA != delivery MTA.
yup - that's the situation that we have implemented.
> Depending on how often users are added, it might be simpler to generate
> cdb/dbm files from the ldap data (virtusertable for sendmail,
> virtual_maps for postfix) and use those. The MTA never touches the
Like for example, every other minute :) Currently we have sendmail patched
with mysql, to lookup users from a mysql map. Using sendmail's multiple map
feature with a berkeley db / btree (or ideally cdb, happen I can get the
currently available - 8.9.3 vintage - patch for cdb support ported to a new
version, and working ok with our mysql patches)
> Yeah. Minimally a /26, with really good admins (at least 5 admins for
> system+ 5 for network). This stuff isn't cheap :)
Yup. Start with that and scale up from there.
-srs
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