Re: email questions

Matthew Schumacher wrote:
> Adam bultman wrote:
>
>>(FWIW: My sendmail servers at my last job could crank out maybe 60,000
>>pieces of mail an hour, full tilt - while a similar qmail server can
>>crank out about 250,000)
>>
>>And finally: Don't use mbox format, use maildirs. Much easier to manage.
>>
>
>
> It all depends on what your doing, in a box stock config, yes qmail is
> faster. But then who uses a box stock qmail?
>
> If you use qmail-scanner as recommended by the website Tim posted
> http://www.jms1.net/qmail/ then your qmail program calls a perl script
> on every single email during the smtp transaction. This perl program
> gets parsed, compiled, and ran on every single email. This will kill
> performance.

Agreed. Thats why one should use qscanq instead.
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Received on Fri Jul 1 12:29:33 2005