async and tls

2008-05-01 Thread Douglas Hunter
Howdy, First, thank you all for such a fantastic piece of software. I've recently been exploring using async for our production mail servers. We use the tls plugin, which I understand hasn't been re-written for the async server yet. First I tried the patch here: http://www.nntp.perl.org/gro

Re: async and tls

2008-05-01 Thread Chris Babcock
Douglas Hunter wrote: Howdy, First, thank you all for such a fantastic piece of software. I've recently been exploring using async for our production mail servers. Why? Are you having issues with the other modes of operation? Async (at this point) is best suited to systems with very high

Re: async and tls

2008-05-01 Thread Matt Sergeant
On 1-May-08, at 5:20 PM, Chris Babcock wrote: Douglas Hunter wrote: Howdy, First, thank you all for such a fantastic piece of software. I've recently been exploring using async for our production mail servers. Why? Are you having issues with the other modes of operation? Async (at this po

Re: async and tls

2008-05-01 Thread Douglas Hunter
Chris Babcock wrote: Douglas Hunter wrote: Howdy, First, thank you all for such a fantastic piece of software. I've recently been exploring using async for our production mail servers. Why? Are you having issues with the other modes of operation? Yes, there are too many concurrent conne

Re: async and tls

2008-05-01 Thread Fred Moyer
Douglas Hunter wrote: Chris Babcock wrote: Douglas Hunter wrote: Howdy, First, thank you all for such a fantastic piece of software. I've recently been exploring using async for our production mail servers. Why? Are you having issues with the other modes of operation? Yes, there are

Re: async and tls

2008-05-01 Thread Douglas Hunter
Matt Sergeant wrote: On 1-May-08, at 5:20 PM, Chris Babcock wrote: Async (at this point) is best suited to systems with very high performance and concurrency requirements. If your system can run without using async, the other modes are simpler to implement and better tested. On the other h

Re: async and tls

2008-05-01 Thread Chris Lewis
Douglas Hunter wrote: I only tested STARTTLS from the default port with the patch I supplied, but that seemed to work well. I'm just not confident enough with my async-fu to recommend that patch to other folks until it gets some more action and community vetting. But the tls plugin isn't a p