On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 06:46:02PM -0400, Charlie ROOT wrote:
> How huge are you talking? Two years ago I read a white paper about
> hacking LDAP into some mainstream MTA, then was used to support 2
> million+ accounts. That was 2 years ago... PC based hardware has came a
> long way in that time, and that's what they were using.
Was that the Earthlink paper? How many machines were used?
> > I wish to see a good multi-threaded open MTA in the future.
> > Is it too much to ask for?
> >
>
> *SHRUG* I don't have any problems with qmail-ldap's model. It maybe fork
> heavy, depending on how you look at it, but no more then sendmail, if that
> much.
Forget about Sendmail, it's not designed with performance in mind.
Anything will scale with hardware clustering, even Sendmail. This
however, doesn't mean there shouldn't be more efficient server software
out there. Take Apache for example, it's and excellent server, but
requires more hardware than some other servers for busy sites.
