Our MDA is propietry, and I know that I can get it to work with qmail, but
the actual MDA is my problem! The MDA currently in use causes huge load on
the machines ( Alpha DS20 2-way 2GB RAM, SAN storage via 100MB Host bus
adapter, SAN populated with 14 spindel stogare array via 6 scsi channels,
ultra3.
This setup sits at a load Av of 90 (!) if I run anything over 50 local
deliveries concurrently.
I need to understand what qmail users for local delivers, so we can look at
the code as a starting point ( show the team that wrote this thing how it
SHOULD be done )
You will probably argue that the most effecient way of doing this would be
to make the system us traditional MAILDIR's in stead of this rather odd
"CWMail" format. I agree, however this is not possible right now, although
it would be the last resort.
Any help / advise / pointers would be appreciated!
-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Cazabon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 6:59 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Proprietry maildir
Leonard Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I would like to change the entire plaform to a qmail based server, as I
feel
> it is lighter, more robust and scalable than anything else I have ever
used,
> as well as being somewhat familiar with its operation from a admin
> perspective.
Great. Many of us feel similarly, and this is why we use qmail.
> The problem is that the directory structure that is used for mail boxes id
> NOT of the "qmail" maildir format. I belive it is based on "cwmail"(??).
Never heard of it. Common mail storage formats include Maildir, several
variants of mbox-format, and MH folders. What is this format you're
referring to? Do you have documentation.
> What I would like to know, it how to get qmail to deliver to the directory
> structure, or even where to start looking.
qmail can deliver using arbitrary MDAs, so if you already have an MDA
which can write to this odd format, you could call it from the default
delivery argument to qmail-start.
Charles
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