Maildir vs mbox

2001-05-15 Thread Fraser Campbell
Hi, I have a client who is using a sendmail system with uw-imap. They are having fairly serious performance problems ... load rarely goes below 2, ssh login takes about 20 seconds (this is a P3 500). The CPU hog seems to be imapd. Some users have very large mail folders (Sent-items particularl

Re: Maildir vs mbox

2001-05-15 Thread Cameron Moore
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2001.05.15 10:33]: > I have a client who is using a sendmail system with uw-imap. They are having > fairly serious performance problems ... load rarely goes below 2, ssh login > takes about 20 seconds (this is a P3 500). > > The CPU hog seems to be imapd. Some users have ve

Re: Maildir vs mbox

2001-05-15 Thread JPS
We use sendmail WITH maildir at my site. Mailbox delivery is not a function of of the MTA per se. At least in the case of sendmail, it is handled by the local delivery agent (procmail in our case). On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 11:19:48AM -0400, Fraser Campbell wrote: > Hi, > > I have a client who is

Cyrus or Courier?

2001-05-15 Thread Haim Dimermanas
Hello fellow Debian users, I am in the process of setting up an email system that will host thousands of domains, many aliases per domain as well as forwarding capabilities on a per-domain basis. As far as the MTA is concerned, my choice is postfix. After reading the postfix-users mailing for

default route [linux/network]

2001-05-15 Thread Joachim Schiele
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi all, to make it short: can someone tell me why there are default routes and how to set them? lets imagine we got this network - -- | box 1 | - -- eth0 -- local lan1 with 192.168.1.0/24 eth1 --- internet eth2 --

Re: default route [linux/network]

2001-05-15 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Joachim Schiele wrote: > can someone tell me why there are default routes and how to set them? The "default route" is the way to go if the other routes don't match. The default route points to a gateway (another router) that should help. In other words, if you want to connec

Re: Maildir vs mbox

2001-05-15 Thread Fraser Campbell
Cameron Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I can almost guarantee that you will see a performance increase. Also > note that you don't have to change to postfix. You can configure > sendmail to use whatever local delivery agent you want (ie. something > like maildrop http://www.flounder.net/~m

Re: Maildir vs mbox

2001-05-15 Thread Fraser Campbell
JPS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We use sendmail WITH maildir at my site. Mailbox delivery is not a function of > of the MTA per se. At least in the case of sendmail, it is handled by the local > delivery agent (procmail in our case). This is one thing I had meant to look into. I have disable

Maildir vs mbox

2001-05-15 Thread Fraser Campbell
Hi, I have a client who is using a sendmail system with uw-imap. They are having fairly serious performance problems ... load rarely goes below 2, ssh login takes about 20 seconds (this is a P3 500). The CPU hog seems to be imapd. Some users have very large mail folders (Sent-items particularly

Re: Maildir vs mbox

2001-05-15 Thread Cameron Moore
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2001.05.15 10:33]: > I have a client who is using a sendmail system with uw-imap. They are having > fairly serious performance problems ... load rarely goes below 2, ssh login > takes about 20 seconds (this is a P3 500). > > The CPU hog seems to be imapd. Some users have ver

Re: Maildir vs mbox

2001-05-15 Thread JPS
We use sendmail WITH maildir at my site. Mailbox delivery is not a function of of the MTA per se. At least in the case of sendmail, it is handled by the local delivery agent (procmail in our case). On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 11:19:48AM -0400, Fraser Campbell wrote: > Hi, > > I have a client who is

Cyrus or Courier?

2001-05-15 Thread Haim Dimermanas
Hello fellow Debian users, I am in the process of setting up an email system that will host thousands of domains, many aliases per domain as well as forwarding capabilities on a per-domain basis. As far as the MTA is concerned, my choice is postfix. After reading the postfix-users mailing for a

default route [linux/network]

2001-05-15 Thread Joachim Schiele
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi all, to make it short: can someone tell me why there are default routes and how to set them? lets imagine we got this network - -- | box 1 | - -- eth0 -- local lan1 with 192.168.1.0/24 eth1 --- internet eth2 ---

Re: default route [linux/network]

2001-05-15 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Joachim Schiele wrote: > can someone tell me why there are default routes and how to set them? The "default route" is the way to go if the other routes don't match. The default route points to a gateway (another router) that should help. In other words, if you want to connect

Re: Maildir vs mbox

2001-05-15 Thread Fraser Campbell
Cameron Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I can almost guarantee that you will see a performance increase. Also > note that you don't have to change to postfix. You can configure > sendmail to use whatever local delivery agent you want (ie. something > like maildrop http://www.flounder.net/~mr

Re: Maildir vs mbox

2001-05-15 Thread Fraser Campbell
JPS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We use sendmail WITH maildir at my site. Mailbox delivery is not a function of > of the MTA per se. At least in the case of sendmail, it is handled by the > local > delivery agent (procmail in our case). This is one thing I had meant to look into. I have disab