Russell Nelson wrote:
>
> Cris Daniluk writes:
> > My question then is, in your honest, semi-unbiased opinions, do you
> > think we would see *significant* results by switching to a qmail
> > environment?
>
> You'll be floored by the results, although I would put the queue on
> its own SCSI drive. Your reaction will be "Why was I wasting my time?
> Why didn't I do this earlier?"
>
> > Also, should this be so, which operating system should we be
> > running qmail under? Which is the most "qmail friendly" in an intel
> > environment? Linux or FreeBSD are the preferred solutions, but
> > again, we are looking for the best overall performance results.
>
> The two are close enough that you'd have to try them both to compare.
There is more how-to books on Linux. FreeBSD has been in use a lot
longer.
Since the bottleneck will be your internet pipe, the decision probably
becomes
one of whether anyone on your team is familiar with one or the other
(incidentally
qmail also works fine on Sun Solaris X_86).
Either FB or Linux will build qmail with ease and works fine.
I use both (but then I have been a BSD user (the old sun OS) for years.
I personally have a bit of fud (fear, uncertainty, and doubt) because
FreeBSD has been in use so long in firewall and other "exposed to the
internet"
situations. I guess, if your folks are not UNIX savy, and this qmail box
is
behind a good firewall then the slightly better availability of books
and (perhaps?) contract folks to set it up, might suggest Linux.
As with Microsoft, the existence of books and warm bodies with
experience
is probably your best indication of platform choice. Your management
might
prefer the major-vendor-style support available from RedHat to other
Linux
packager's solutions.
>
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