RE: Solaris vs. Linux vs. FreeBSD
You were right, and I was wrong. The 2G limit is now removed as of kernel 2.4.x. Dave. -Original Message- From: Karsten W. Rohrbach [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 10:05 AM To: David T. Ashley Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Solaris vs. Linux vs. FreeBSD David T. Ashley([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.06.27 20:42:50 +: If Free BSD breaks the 2G limit, I'd go with Free BSD. what 2g limit? /k -- Love does not make the world go around, just up and down a bit. KR433/KR11-RIPE -- WebMonster Community Founder -- nGENn GmbH Senior Techie http://www.webmonster.de/ -- ftp://ftp.webmonster.de/ -- http://www.ngenn.net/ karstenrohrbach.de -- alphangenn.net -- alphascene.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG 0x2964BF46 2001-03-15 42F9 9FFF 50D4 2F38 DBEE DF22 3340 4F4E 2964 BF46 Please do not remove my address from To: and Cc: fields in mailing lists. 10x
RE: Solaris vs. Linux vs. FreeBSD
Thanks for that info. I was skeptical, and I have a 2.4.x kernel on my Linux box, so I tried it. You are right. The 2**31 - 1 byte limit is gone. I am 38. I am old. Early Alzheimer's. -Original Message- From: Frank Tanner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 8:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Solaris vs. Linux vs. FreeBSD Linux running Kernel 2.4.x has done away with the 2GB limit. No need for ReiserFS or XFS to solve this problem. As an FYI. One of the largest search engines on the net runs a Red Hat Linux farm. Google. So it can't be all bad. # -Original Message- # From: Ari Arantes Filho [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] # Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 5:00 AM # To: David T. Ashley; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] # Subject: Re: Solaris vs. Linux vs. FreeBSD # # # Linux using ReiserFS has no more limit of 2Gb file size. # # # - Original Message - # From: David T. Ashley [EMAIL PROTECTED] # To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] # Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 9:42 PM # Subject: RE: Solaris vs. Linux vs. FreeBSD # # # Just be careful about Linux because it has a maximum 2G file size # (size for # a single file). This can get in the way of some search engines # which build # large random-access files that exceed 2G. But it should not pose any kind # of a problem for mail, especially if MAILDIR format is used. # # I understand that Free BSD and Linux are the overwhelming choices of the # Internet pornography industry. That is a good technical figure of merit, # because it means these servers are stable (for HTTP) when getting lots and # lots of hits. # # If Free BSD breaks the 2G limit, I'd go with Free BSD. # # Dave. # # -Original Message- # From: root [mailto:root]On Behalf Of Federico Edelman Anaya # Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 8:22 PM # To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] # Subject: Solaris vs. Linux vs. FreeBSD # # # What's is the best OS for run Qmail (and/or Ezmlm)? What advantage and # disadvantage has each one? I'll need send two millions mails per day and # I don't know what hard can I buy? :) # # # Thanks very much! # # # #
RE: Problem with qmail-remote during Delivery
Are you saying that qmail cannot send mail to a hotmail account? Dave. -Original Message- From: Henning Brauer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 5:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Problem with qmail-remote during Delivery wrap your lines at 72 chars. On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 10:57:09AM +0530, D Rajesh wrote: Whenever a qmail-remote tries to send a mail to hotmail.com. it hangs for sometime. As I had 8000 out of 30,000 mails as hotmail ID's the number of occurrence's of hotmail were more. So, the 300 qmail-remote processes were just hanging, trying to send those mails. So, whenever one process time-out , it gives way for other mail's to be sent. Hotmail is broken. you cannot fix this. -- * Henning Brauer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.bsws.de * * Roedingsmarkt 14, 20459 Hamburg, Germany * Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie)
RE: Solaris vs. Linux vs. FreeBSD
Just be careful about Linux because it has a maximum 2G file size (size for a single file). This can get in the way of some search engines which build large random-access files that exceed 2G. But it should not pose any kind of a problem for mail, especially if MAILDIR format is used. I understand that Free BSD and Linux are the overwhelming choices of the Internet pornography industry. That is a good technical figure of merit, because it means these servers are stable (for HTTP) when getting lots and lots of hits. If Free BSD breaks the 2G limit, I'd go with Free BSD. Dave. -Original Message- From: root [mailto:root]On Behalf Of Federico Edelman Anaya Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 8:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Solaris vs. Linux vs. FreeBSD What's is the best OS for run Qmail (and/or Ezmlm)? What advantage and disadvantage has each one? I'll need send two millions mails per day and I don't know what hard can I buy? :) Thanks very much!
RE: webmailer
Tom, Could you clarify your question according to the questions below? Thanks, Dave. -Original Message- From: Tom Beer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 28, 2001 11:25 AM To: qmail list Subject: webmailer Hi, I want to install a webmail interface on a server of my provider running qmail. Do you mean the provider you own or work for or do you mean the provider you have an account with or subscribe to? Because if it is the latter, your chances of getting them to install anything on the server are about the same as your chances of coming home tonight and finding you've won the lottery. The problem is that I've only restricted access and no IMAP. What do you mean by restricted access? Restricted access to install software on the server? Restricted access because your firewall at work blocks certain ports and you can't POP3? What I want is simply a login to connect via pop3 to a account and read the mails in a browser. Is this happening on the server or on your local machine? Which machine is talking POP3 to which other machine? Unfourtunately I couldn't find anything that seems to fit. Hope this is not too off topic, thanks for any suggestions Tom Tom, your post is ambiguous and I can't deduce your meaning and exactly what you are trying to do. If your question is what I tentatively think it is, consider an account with www.hotmail.com and set up the POP3 services (which retrieve mail from other hosts) so that it yanks your mail to your hotmail box (and you can set an option so it doesn't delete the mail). I used to do this to get my own e-mail from my own server in my apartment, because at work the firewall wouldn't allow POP3. Best regards, Dave.
RE: Dont know if qmail is installed
Hi Constantine,
Qmail is not for the faint of heart! The help on the web is ... well ...
scattered is the most sympathetic way to put it.
I recommmend buying a book. The book I found is Running qmail by Richard
Blum.
See:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0672319454/qid%3D991020593/002-159088
7-7183201
As far as whether it is installed, you would need to see if you have
executables in /var/qmail/bin. But there is more to installation than that.
As far as a script to get it started, Mr. Blum recommends a script something
like the one below:
#!/bin/sh
#PATH=/var/qmail/bin
#export PATH
#Check that qmail is loaded.
[ -f /var/qmail/bin/qmail-start ] || exit 0
case $1 in
start)
echo -n Starting qmail ...
/bin/csh -cf /var/qmail/rc
;;
stop)
echo -n Stopping qmail ...
/usr/bin/killall qmail-send
;;
restart)
$0 stop
$0 start
;;
*)
echo -n Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}
exit 1
esac
exit 0
#End of script.
That script is traditionally placed in /etc/rc.d/init.d, and there are
symbolic links elsewhere that get hit on system startup and shutdown.]
Furthermore, I might add that the script above breaks the qmail
recommendations, as it is not recommended to start it from a shell like
that. However, for my pathetic little server which sits on a DSL line, the
computer is much faster than the DSL line. I seriously doubt that anybody
could attack the thing based on overwhelming xinetd or something like that.
You want a book. qmail assumes you know quite a bit about Unix.
Best regards, Dave.
-Original Message-
From: Constantine Koulis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2001 6:41 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Dont know if qmail is installed
Hello All.
I am trying to install the qmail but unfortunately i dont know whether or
not is installed on my system or no.i read the Qmail-HOW-to at
http://www.flounder.net/qmail/qmail-howto.html and i followed every step.
I dont know as i said whether is installed or not.Can somebody tell me how
is start/stop the qmail?
Also is there a Gnome user interface to configure qmail?
Sincerely
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How Does Everyone Feel About The Tone Of The Automatic Messages?
How does everyone feel about the tone of the automatically-generated messages? Dan Bernstein is brilliant as a software author. qmail is great! This is not a genuine complaint. This is a very subjective matter, but the tone of the automatically-generated messages seems too freindly. For example, there was a bounce message today which ended with Sorry it didn't work out!. It seems too casual, too friendly, too personal. It also seems too wordy. One ends a marriage or a business partnership with those words, but they don't seem right for a bounced e-mail message. Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed this, too? Am I too picky or too sensitive or too ... whatever? Dave.
FW: DNS question
-Original Message- From: David T. Ashley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 6:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: DNS question I read the HOWTO for q-mail, but there is one thing I don't understand. It states that I need a DNS and that my machines have to be listed in the DNS for qmail to work. I have a hardware firewall (one of those $150 boxes) guarding my DSL line with a static IP. Is it good enough that my static IP has a reverse-DNS resolution, or do my "internal" addresses need to resolve as well. For example, my static IP is 64.129.57.5, but the server (internally, behind the firewall) is 192.168.0.33. Clearly, trying to reverse-DNS the latter will lead to trouble, whereas the former is OK. It isn't clear to me what is meant by the statements about DNS in the HOWTO or what qmail needs to be viable. Any insight would be appreciated. Thanks, Dave.
