Thanks, Len. I'll take a look at postfix...
>postfix handles in/out with INternet, and Imail sends/receives only with
>the postfix gateway, which itself has no mail accounts, it's only
>a relay hub. Imail is still the mail server with the mailboxes.
Do you mean that IMail is using a "PostFix" implementation? I'm sorry, but
I'm getting confused...
Are you suggesting:
CF Server ---> Imail Server ---> Internet
or
CF Server ---> PostFix ---> Internet
or
CF Server ---> Imail Server ---> PostFix ---> Internet
If you are suggesting the last, how do you tell Imail to use PostFix?
Thanks!
Chris
At 11:38 AM 6/5/2000, you wrote:
>>In the first paragraph, postfix would be instead of Imail for that portion?
>
>postfix handles in/out with INternet, and Imail sends/receives only with
>the postfix gateway, which itself has no mail accounts, it's only a relay
>hub. Imail is still the mail server with the mailboxes.
>
>>How difficult is it to implement? (I know next-to-nothing about Linux)
>
>We've got about 10 people on the IMGate list who have got it up and
>running and I think a few of them have never touche anything but NT. So
>it's not that hard.
>
>
>>In the second, you talk about having CF pass stuff to a separate machine.
>>My original intent is to have 2 machines - one CF, and one IMail. The IMail
>>would be dedicated to this purpose & not used for general email activities.
>
>That's similar to what I'm proposing: you run your list on CF and have CF
>dump the list delivery of Imail which relays to Internet. Imail is a much
>stronger mail server than CF's mail support.
>
>>Are you talking about pushing the messages through a dedicated Imail machine,
>
>that's a possbility. CF's lists send to Imail as the gateway to Internet.
>
>>or somehow "offloading" the work from the Imail machine to a different
>>type of machine?
>
>that's another possbiility. you run your lists on Imail, while also
>keeping your current Imail server functions you've been running for 2
>years, and Imail delivers its outgoging to an mail gateway machine.
>
>>Finally, do you know anything about creating your own spool files?
>
>no. And I really don't think you're going to gain much by writing to
>Imail's spool files, even if you can figure out the spool file format, the
>file naming conventions, the file locking tactics. Delivery over SMTP at
>LAN speeds between local machines will be fast enough. The delay is not
>delivering to the outgoing queue of Imail, the delay is delivering the
>1000's of msgs to Internet servers.
>
>>Would it be faster to have CF just write out text files to the spool
>>directory rather
>>than using a CF_Mail type of tag?
>
>No, I'd keep CF on its own machine and have a good CF mail tag shoot the
>outgoing list traffic over SMTP to Imail for relaying to Internet.
>
>>And lastly, is it better to do a big BCC: than to send individual
>>messages to each recipient?
>
>If you can "pre-sort" the outgoing mail in CF so that you group all msgs
>destined for one mail server into one outgoing msg, that would help Imail
>because Imail would only have to contact the destination server once to
>deliver 50 msgs in one SMTP sesssion rather than in 50 SMTP sessions.
>
>Len
>
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