I'll check out postfix. As the author of CFX_MAIL, I think I'll use that
rather than ASPQmail, though :).
I've never had a problem any problem with CFMAIL. I did run a basic test
yesterday using CFX_MAIL to connect to LSMTP using native SMTP, and got
throughput rate of 78,500 an hour. That should be sufficient.
LSMTP costs a lot, but it runs on a minimal hardware platform.
Chris Evans
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http://www.fuseware.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Len Conrad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 1:23 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Speed of CFMAIL
>Do you have a URL for postfix?
vbg www.postfix.org
> And is there a Solaris/Linux port?
yeah, sure. Wietse has done a world-class job with postfix, including a
beautiful install routine. IBM doesn't publish crap under their public
software license and hire Venema for a sabbatical to do postfix.
>The company I am doing this for is NT only, but may consider going for a
>Solaris
>or Linux solution. FreeBSD is not even on the radar.
If they look up at yahoo, or use Hotmail, then FreeBSD is on their radar.
vbg
>They'd rather spend 10k for an NT solution rather than pick up a better
>freeware product. Gotta love cube life.
f@rthe@ds. Free doesn't mean junk. But I guess for the cubists, it's just
pearls before swine.
If I were you (ouch!), I'd throw protoytpe together a FreeBSD machine with
postfix (out of pocket: $0.00, skunkworks!!), a celeron 400 or better, and
get Marcelo Frutig's tag for talking to serverobjects' ASPQmail ($150).
CFMail has such notoriety, for so long (see this list and the forums), that
I can't believe anyone would ever consider putting it the head-end of such
a huge mail project, esp with all the money you're spending for tail-end of
LSMTP and its hw platform (and its maintenance costs). If the prototype
give results, then ask them to buy you a Solaris license. Wietse Venema
has some tools for pumping tons of mail into postfix. It is a very hot
MTA. You could have roomful of PIII's running postfix in parallel, giving
you great redundancy, and just have CF/ASPQmail spread the output over the
MTA outgoing farm.
I've got an idiot's How-To for installing FreeBSD and then postfix, if
you're interested, as part of my IMGate anti-spam project.
Len
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