On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Mark Powell wrote: > Hi, > Running qpsmtpd on all the relays here. They are all stock FreeBSD > tracking the latest stable version, so they're on 4.10-STABLE now. The > default perl in FreeBSD 4x is still 5.005_03.
Ok so no-one knows the best version :) What versions are people out there running? Especially, Matt and Ask as everything has to work for you? I've noticed with v5.8.4 that resident sizes are quite a bit larger than they used to be with 5.005_03. I haven't done any benchmarks, but both versions feel the same speed-wise. Cheers. > I thought I'd test sender_permitted_from, but it needs 5.6.1. > Now I have the choice of installing the perl port for either 5.6.1 or > 5.8.4. I'm wondering which is the best version to go for. I'm assuming > that 5.6.1 is still available, due to the unicode causing problems? > I've steered clear of PPerl as I've seen it reported as "working for > some", which is not good enough for ~200K messages we get a day here. Is > PPerl success related to the perl version used? > Any thoughts? > Cheers. > > BTW Thanks to all for one of the purest bits of software I've seen for > many a year. > > -- Mark Powell - UNIX System Administrator - The University of Salford Information Services Division, Clifford Whitworth Building, Salford University, Manchester, M5 4WT, UK. Tel: +44 161 295 4837 Fax: +44 161 295 5888 www.pgp.com for PGP key
