Mail Server recommendations

Jim Durham jimd at nepinc.com
Fri Apr 29 07:39:10 PDT 2005


On Thursday 28 April 2005 07:02 pm, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 01:34:48PM -0400 I heard the voice of
>
> Jim Durham, and lo! it spake thus:
> > One thing that I have considered also is having a 'plain
> > vanilla' sendmail installation that folks POP from and do
> > all the scanning on a set of load-balanced machines and then
> > they just relay it to the POP machine. Something like
> > that...
>
> I would (well, not with sendmail, but...  8-).  You've got a
> set of tasks [the mailboxes] that aren't all that heavy, and
> are hard to parallelize, and a set of tasks [the scanning]
> that are insanely heavy and easy to parallelize.  I mean, it's
> like getting a personal message from Olympus to split these
> tasks along the bright neon lines!

I see...and I hear!!!  (Awfully Bright...could we back off the 
neon a little? ) 8-)  .  Now, to find the time betwen fixing XP 
problems... 

Thanks!

-- 
Jim Durham
IT Engineer
NEP Supershooters
2 Beta Dr.
Pittsburgh, PA 15238
412-826-1414


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