I just understand that qmail has a difficult time with so I/O when you have
tons of email to send out (2million). Unfortunately, the emails are
customized to each user. By having a separate qmail install on each disk,
the idea is to spread the load around. Would you agree? I will look into
binding tcpserver with different addresses.
Thanks,
Brandon
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sean Chittenden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 5:27 PM
> To: Brandon Yu
> Cc: List - Qmail (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: Multiple QMAIL-SMTPD on same box?
>
>
> Howdy. I've done this before: it's cake, but I'm not sure why
> you would want to do mutliple queues. As for modifying tcpserver, why
> not just run multiple copies and bind them to different
> addresses? -sc
>
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 05:19:05PM -0800, Brandon Yu wrote:
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> > I am setting up multiple Qmail installations on the same
> box. I am doing
> > this because I am sending out a large number of emails that
> can't be sent
> > out via a mailing list. By having multiple installs, I
> intend to lessen the
> > I/O burden of just having 1 queue structure. My question is
> how to setup
> > multiple qmail-smtpd processes all binding to port 25 using
> different IP
> > addresses. I intend to setup multiple IPs to the same NIC
> using IP Aliasing.
> > I think I will be modifying TCPSERVER, but not 100% sure.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
>
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> Sean Chittenden [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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