Re: Sendmail or Qmail ? ..

2003-09-06 Thread Russell Coker
On Sun, 7 Sep 2003 13:47, Jason Lim wrote: > Mmm... one of the limitations of Qmail is that it creates many many > individual files (one for each email) and due to filesystem limitations, > EXT2/3 starts slowing to a crawl. Of course, another way would be to use > ReiserFS, but wouldn't doing a FS

Re: Postfix! [WAS: Re: Sendmail or Qmail ? ..]

2003-09-06 Thread Jason Lim
> Please people, > > What is the connection between the nationality of Wietse Venema and > people who sent spam? This is a very strange argument and more fitted > for a discussion between kids. We are adults, we are professionals, this > list is to discuss technicall matters (personal opinions a

Re: Sendmail or Qmail ? ..

2003-09-06 Thread Cameron L. Spitzer
I wrote: >> Unfortunately, [Qmail's] not being maintained by its >> author. I've also used [PM]MDF and Smail. Their authors bailed, too. I've used Slackware's and SuSE's Sendmail on personal systems, but never for anything other people were depending on. W.D. McKinney top-posted: >I know of sev

Re: Sendmail or Qmail ? ..

2003-09-06 Thread Jason Lim
> On Sun, 7 Sep 2003 02:19, Cameron L. Spitzer wrote: > > I've been running Qmail since '98. It's got a bottleneck > > in disk writes, but aside from that it's fast. > > (Anybody tried running the queue in a ramdisk? > > Running the queue on a ramdisk would kill reliability. Indeed, been there

Re: Sendmail or Qmail ? ..

2003-09-06 Thread Jason Lim
- Original Message - From: "Cameron L. Spitzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, 07 September, 2003 12:19 AM Subject: Re: Sendmail or Qmail ? .. > I've been running Qmail since '98. It's got a bottleneck > in disk writes, but aside from that it's fast. > (Anybod

Re: Sendmail or Qmail ? ..

2003-09-06 Thread Russell Coker
On Sat, 6 Sep 2003 00:08, Eric Sproul wrote: > On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 01:14, Russell Coker wrote: > > I was under the impression that Sendmail also queues everything to disk. > > How does it's queue operate then? > > While the message is coming in, Sendmail buffers the message to memory, > optional

Re: Sendmail or Qmail ? ..

2003-09-06 Thread Russell Coker
On Sun, 7 Sep 2003 02:19, Cameron L. Spitzer wrote: > I've been running Qmail since '98. It's got a bottleneck > in disk writes, but aside from that it's fast. > (Anybody tried running the queue in a ramdisk? Running the queue on a ramdisk would kill reliability. Using a non-volatile RAM device

Re: Sendmail or Qmail ? ..

2003-09-06 Thread W.D. McKinney
Hmm. Since '98 ...good for you. All the patches in the world don't help some folks anyway.Qmail has many ways to skin a cat. In the end, it's pick a horse and ride it. Exim, Postfix, Sendmail and qmail all have querks. Like the Mutt homepage, "All mail clients suck. This one just sucks less.

Re: Sendmail or Qmail ? ..

2003-09-06 Thread Franz Georg Köhler
On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 04:19:54PM -, Cameron L. Spitzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So I've given up on Qmail. I'm using Exim for small systems, > and I'll try Postfix for my next big one. Why won't you give exim a try on bigger systems? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: Sendmail or Qmail ? ..

2003-09-06 Thread Cameron L. Spitzer
I've been running Qmail since '98. It's got a bottleneck in disk writes, but aside from that it's fast. (Anybody tried running the queue in a ramdisk? Howabout in an fs made in a file mounted looback?) It's secure and reliable. Unfortunately, it's not being maintained by its author. If you want

Re: Postfix! [WAS: Re: Sendmail or Qmail ? ..]

2003-09-06 Thread Brian Olivier
Please people, What is the connection between the nationality of Wietse Venema and people who sent spam? This is a very strange argument and more fitted for a discussion between kids. We are adults, we are professionals, this list is to discuss technicall matters (personal opinions allowed). P

Re: SMP on Debian server with Hyperthreading

2003-09-06 Thread Angus D Madden
Jason Lim, Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 01:06:43AM +0800: > Just wondering... I've got a 2.4Ghz Hyperthreading (100% it is the > hyperthreading model), and the BIOS sees it. > > I then compiled the kernel... the usual, except added the SMP support > setting "Symmetric multi-processing support". Nothing e

Re: multiple ppp connections

2003-09-06 Thread Tarragon Allen
On Sat, 6 Sep 2003 07:36 pm, Emmanuel Lacour wrote: > On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 02:24:35PM +0200, Sz?ts Róbert wrote: > > Does anyone know how can I put iptables firewall script onto a firewall > > where is more ppp connectoins? Expl. > > > > There is a firewall with two dsl connection the first is

Re: SMP on Debian server with Hyperthreading

2003-09-06 Thread Guus Houtzager
Hi, On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 09:31, Jason Lim wrote: > Hi Guus, > > Yes, BIOS setting is enabled. The ONLY thing that I haven't done is edit > lilo to include the acpismp=force setting. Did you set that to make it > work? Does it work without it (ie. SMP enabled WITHOUT modifying lilo)? Haven't mod

Re: Postfix! [WAS: Re: Sendmail or Qmail ? ..]

2003-09-06 Thread Hans Spaans
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 03:01:29PM +0200, Adrian von Bidder wrote: Content-Description: signed data > On Friday 05 September 2003 13:45, Nico Meijer wrote: > > > - wietse venema is [...] d) dutch > > Taking into account that .nl is one of the major sources of spam right now > (through a2000.nl a

Re: multiple ppp connections

2003-09-06 Thread Emmanuel Lacour
On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 02:24:35PM +0200, Sz?ts Róbert wrote: > Does anyone know how can I put iptables firewall script onto a firewall where is > more ppp connectoins? > Expl. > > There is a firewall with two dsl connection the first is ppp0 the 2nd is the ppp1. > It's clear. > > How can I bu

Re: SMP on Debian server with Hyperthreading

2003-09-06 Thread Jason Lim
Hi Guus, Yes, BIOS setting is enabled. The ONLY thing that I haven't done is edit lilo to include the acpismp=force setting. Did you set that to make it work? Does it work without it (ie. SMP enabled WITHOUT modifying lilo)? Thanks. - Original Message - From: "Guus Houtzager" <[EMAIL P

Re: SMP on Debian server with Hyperthreading

2003-09-06 Thread Sanjeev \"Ghane\" Gupta
> On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 17:06, Jason Lim wrote: >> Hi all, >> Just wondering... I've got a 2.4Ghz Hyperthreading (100% it is >> the hyperthreading model), and the BIOS sees it. >> Hope you can advise... as hyperthreading is there but not >> being used, which is a waste and could add performa

Re: SMP on Debian server with Hyperthreading

2003-09-06 Thread Guus Houtzager
Hi, On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 17:06, Jason Lim wrote: > Hi all, > > Just wondering... I've got a 2.4Ghz Hyperthreading (100% it is the > hyperthreading model), and the BIOS sees it. I have a 3.06 GHz P4 on an I845G chipset and in the BIOS I had to switch the HT option from disabled to enabled. So is