Re: qmail postfix

2001-03-09 Thread Mate Wierdl
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 08:45:23PM +0100, Markus Stumpf wrote: On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 12:26:55PM -0600, Mate Wierdl wrote: On the ezmlm list somebody asked if he needed the bigtodo patch if he is to set up 15 lists with 50K subscribers each, and the lists get exactly one message/day. I

Re: qmail postfix

2001-03-09 Thread Markus Stumpf
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 10:43:28AM -0600, Mate Wierdl wrote: Well, I am thinking about bad or sluggish addresses; a bounce comes back, and deposited in the queue. Then there are the messages ezmlm-warn sends out... I doubt they are single messages with lots of recipients... With no

Re: qmail postfix

2001-03-08 Thread Mate Wierdl
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 09:06:37AM -0500, Dave Sill wrote: Mate Wierdl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apparently with large mailinglists the bigtodo patch is needed. big-concurrency, perhaps. big-todo is usually only necessary on systems that handle *lots* of messages. On the ezmlm list somebody

Re: qmail postfix

2001-03-08 Thread Markus Stumpf
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 12:26:55PM -0600, Mate Wierdl wrote: On the ezmlm list somebody asked if he needed the bigtodo patch if he is to set up 15 lists with 50K subscribers each, and the lists get exactly one message/day. I would have thought, no since my P120 box handles 180K messages a

Re: qmail postfix

2001-03-08 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 12:26:55PM -0600, Mate Wierdl wrote: On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 09:06:37AM -0500, Dave Sill wrote: Mate Wierdl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apparently with large mailinglists the bigtodo patch is needed. big-concurrency, perhaps. big-todo is usually only necessary on

Re: qmail postfix

2001-03-08 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 08:45:23PM +0100, Markus Stumpf wrote: [snip] I have a Pentium III (551.25-MHz 686-class CPU) 256 MB RAM on a RAID 5 dedicated machine for a 95000 users newsletter list. concurrencyremote set to 250. It delivers the 95000 messages in about 1 hour. I have a dual PIII

Re: qmail postfix

2001-03-07 Thread Dave Sill
Mate Wierdl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thx for the info. What I was curious about was also how qmail scales. For example, it requires patches sometimes. Rarely. IMHO, people are way to eager to install unnecessary patches. Apparently with large mailinglists the bigtodo patch is needed.

Re: qmail postfix

2001-03-06 Thread Mate Wierdl
Thx for the info. What I was curious about was also how qmail scales. For example, it requires patches sometimes. Apparently with large mailinglists the bigtodo patch is needed. Or it apparently needs the dns patch. In other words, qmail does not seem be uptodate as new requirements come

qmail postfix

2001-03-05 Thread Mate Wierdl
Could anybody point me to a URL where postfix and qmail are (objectively) compared? Thx Mate -- --- Mate Wierdl | Dept. of Math. Sciences | University of Memphis

Re: qmail postfix

2001-03-05 Thread Dave Sill
Mate Wierdl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could anybody point me to a URL where postfix and qmail are (objectively) compared? There's a bit in LWQ: http://www.lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html#comparison Which includes a link to Cameron Laird's MTA comparison, which includes links to his profiles of