I have to put my two cents in here. Everyone seems impressed that InterNIC uses
qmail. It has been mentioned repeatedly that their mail is important and cannot
afford to be late. In my experience mail from InterNIC is always late or never
arrives. Yes, it seems that they should have a reliable mail server. Perhaps
they do, but their mail does not seem to get out on time or at all for some
reason. I think showing that qmail is used by InterNIC is more of a turn off
than a positive finding.
Of course, this is based on my own experience. I can only assume that others
have had similar experiences. Although it is possible that I am the only one
who has these problems, it does not seem likely.
I should also say that I do not think their problems rooted in their mail
software. Don't let this turn you off to qmail. I have been very happy with it
so far.
Ben
Daniluk, Chris wrote:
> I think it is quite a big surprise :) When 80% of the world uses Sendmail...
> It's safe to assume that Internic used to use sendmail because they've been
> around since before qmails exsistence, and sendmail was really it when they
> were new. I'd be shocked if there were too many more sites that had that
> much traffic, considering the sheer volume they send out. When MAPS was
> talking about RBL'ng them they claimed somewhere up near 10 million emails
> per day. Plus that doesn't count the 35 million customers that they send
> mass mailings to (minus those who checked no). The volume isn't nearly as
> impressive as the dependability though. They have to really trust it.. the
> mail can't afford to be late, because of the nature of what they do. I think
> it may be good to put up a list of sites such as this that use qmail.
> Hotmail and InterNIC both are very large volume sites and it's a good answer
> to "Who uses qmail anyway?" which was asked of us quite often while we began
> to migrate to it.
>
> Cris Daniluk
> MicroStrategy
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Russell Nelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, August 12, 1999 2:00 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Infamous internic
>
> Cris Daniluk writes:
> > I don't know if people are aware of thi (as I dont know that I've heard
> it
> > before), but it appears InterNIC users qmail for some or all of their
> > mail, based on email headers which I've viewed. Can anyone else confirm
> > this? If so, this is a pretty significant qmail achievement, considering
> > the sheer volume internic sends in a given day...
>
> yes, the Internic uses qmail. No, this is not a surprise. No, it is
> not a particular "achievement". There are sites which send much more
> mail per day (I'm guessing).
>
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