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2003-09-04 Thread Portal La Plata
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Re: Sendmail or Qmail ? ..

2003-09-04 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach W.D. McKinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.09.05.0448 +0200]: > > - qmail isn't available as a binary package for Debian > > Wrong. See http://smarden.org/pape/Debian/ This is illegal. And in any case, it's not official. > > - qmail support includes being flamed by the author > > Wrong

Re: Sendmail or Qmail ? ..

2003-09-04 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Dale E Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.09.05.0207 +0200]: > I'd add: > - exim has the most extensive and useful documentation > > (But I'd love to be proven wrong!) possible, although i do find the stuff on postfix.org adequate. maybe not for MTA newbies but for people with experienc

Re: Sendmail or Qmail ? ..

2003-09-04 Thread Russell Coker
On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 22:58, Eric Sproul wrote: > First, scale is a consideration. Once we began to grow our customer > base, our email volume began to increase dramatically. Qmail queues > everything to disk, so the more mail you do, the more pressure you put > on your disk I/O. The server running

Re: raid controller & debian

2003-09-04 Thread Rod Rodolico
Just thought I'd check in. Again, as pointed out, this is a SCSI implementation. Got the card today at around 1pm. By 3pm I was installing the OS. What took so long? The CD that came with it for configuration was Windoze based and GPF'd! Downloaded a 400M ISO from IBM (ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com

Re: raid controller & debian

2003-09-04 Thread Russell Coker
On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 01:25, Boehn, Gunnar von wrote: > I would like to set up a debian box with mirrored disks. > Can anybody please give me a hint which raid controllers are supported by > debian ? > > My original idea was to use an IDE 3ware 7000-2 controller. > Would this be a good choice ? I hav

Re: Sendmail or Qmail ? ..

2003-09-04 Thread George Georgalis
On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 06:51:41PM -0800, W.D. McKinney wrote: >On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 04:58, Eric Sproul wrote: >> Sendmail's milter plug-in system has also been invaluable when we >> implemented server-side bayesian spam filtering, and as we work on virus >> scanning. >> > >qmail being modular h

Re: Sendmail or Qmail ? ..

2003-09-04 Thread W.D. McKinney
On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 04:58, Eric Sproul wrote: > On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 01:43, Rudi Starcevic wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Sorry to bother you all with this repeat question. > > I've have searched around and seen plenty of opinions but I'd like to > > ask again and get the latest from this list. > > >

Re: Sendmail or Qmail ? ..

2003-09-04 Thread W.D. McKinney
On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 14:54, martin f krafft wrote: > - qmail isn't available as a binary package for Debian Wrong. See http://smarden.org/pape/Debian/ > . > - qmail support includes being flamed by the author Wrong. Ask a question and find out. Many helpful people who don't flame but as they h

Re: Sendmail or Qmail ? ..

2003-09-04 Thread George Georgalis
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 12:54:55AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: Mostly good comments (I've never used postfix or exim -- comments seem accurate from what I've heard) but I have to disagree with this: >- qmail support includes being flamed by the author I've subscribed to the qmail list more or

Re: Sendmail or Qmail ? ..

2003-09-04 Thread Dale E Martin
> random notes (these are facts and opinions, please don't flame me): > > - sendmail and exim are both single setuid binaries. bad. > - postfix is the most performant of all four. > - qmail has an interesting but possibly confusing configuration paradigm > - postfix has the easiest configuration,

Re: Sendmail or Qmail ? ..

2003-09-04 Thread Rudi Starcevic
Martin, Very good. More food for thought and consideration. Thanks Regards Rudi. martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Dale E Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.09.04.1447 +0200]: Has it been covered before on this list? I for one would be interested in elaboration, if there is som

Re: Sendmail or Qmail ? ..

2003-09-04 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Dale E Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.09.04.1447 +0200]: > Has it been covered before on this list? I for one would be > interested in elaboration, if there is something technically > inferior about exim or postfix to qmail or sendmail? Or > politically, I suppose, since much of peo

Re: multiple ppp connections

2003-09-04 Thread aCaB
Have a look at /etc/ppp/ip-up and ip-down scripts they both export some env vars you may find useful when setting iptables rules. Does anyone know how can I put iptables firewall script onto a firewall where is more ppp connectoins? Expl. There is a firewall with two dsl connection the first is

Re: Sendmail or Qmail ? ..

2003-09-04 Thread Alex Borges
El jue, 04-09-2003 a las 07:58, Eric Sproul escribió: > We chose OpenLDAP. At the time (1999), Qmail > did not have LDAP support (correct me if I'm wrong). Sendmail did. > Even if Qmail did have LDAP support then, Sendmail's source was *much* > easier to dig through for the performance tuning w

Re: raid controller & debian

2003-09-04 Thread Angus D Madden
Rod Rodolico, Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 11:28:07AM -0500: > I had the same question not too long ago, and 3ware came up as one of > the choices. But, if I remember correctly, it slows the system down > quite a bit on a rebuild. > > I have since been told by some guru's I know that the IBM ServeRaid 3H

Re: raid controller & debian

2003-09-04 Thread Rod Rodolico
I had the same question not too long ago, and 3ware came up as one of the choices. But, if I remember correctly, it slows the system down quite a bit on a rebuild. I have since been told by some guru's I know that the IBM ServeRaid 3HB (IBM p/n 37L6086) was the best choice, and mine is being del

Re: raid controller & debian

2003-09-04 Thread Thijs Welman
Boehn, Gunnar von wrote: Hello everybody I would like to set up a debian box with mirrored disks. Can anybody please give me a hint which raid controllers are supported by debian ? My original idea was to use an IDE 3ware 7000-2 controller. Would this be a good choice ? Has someone experience wit

Re: raid controller & debian

2003-09-04 Thread Theodore Knab
I would refer you to SCSI low-level drivers in the kernel config or IDE, ATA and ATAPI Block devices. Here is what the 2.4.20 Linux Kernel config says about 3ware: This info was wound under 'SCSI low-level drivers' section [not sure why consiering this is for ATA drives]. x CONFIG_BLK_DEV_3W_

raid controller & debian

2003-09-04 Thread Boehn, Gunnar von
Hello everybody I would like to set up a debian box with mirrored disks. Can anybody please give me a hint which raid controllers are supported by debian ? My original idea was to use an IDE 3ware 7000-2 controller. Would this be a good choice ? Has someone experience with this controller and deb

Re: Sendmail or Qmail ? ..

2003-09-04 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 04 Sep 2003 08:58:27 -0400, Eric Sproul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 01:43, Rudi Starcevic wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Sorry to bother you all with this repeat question. > > I've have searched around and seen plenty of opinions but I'd lik

Re: Sendmail or Qmail ? ..

2003-09-04 Thread Rudi Starcevic
Hi, First thanks to all who have replied. We're all busy so I do appreciate the time taken to tap out a reply message. It's very interesting and in some ways what I expected. There is no right or wrong. Just like programing there is many ways to the top of the mountain. So for me it's come down

Re: Sendmail or Qmail ? ..

2003-09-04 Thread Rod Rodolico
I repeat the earlier question: Why not exim? I really don't know. I have fallen in love with it, thought the tools to configure do not exists (Oh my God, I actually have to MANUALLY edit the config file). I have a small installation, but intend to grow, and if there will be a problem with exim,

Re: Sendmail or Qmail ? ..

2003-09-04 Thread Eric Sproul
On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 01:43, Rudi Starcevic wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry to bother you all with this repeat question. > I've have searched around and seen plenty of opinions but I'd like to > ask again and get the latest from this list. > > Sendmail or Qmail ? That is my question. Rudi, I work at an

Re: Sendmail or Qmail ? ..

2003-09-04 Thread Dale E Martin
> It doesnt at all Not to ellaborate, but the subject says it > all...even then. I hate exim too. Has it been covered before on this list? I for one would be interested in elaboration, if there is something technically inferior about exim or postfix to qmail or sendmail? Or politically, I su

Re: Sendmail or Qmail ? ..

2003-09-04 Thread Dale E Martin
> At this stage I'm leaning towards sticking with Sendmail but something > inside wants to know more about Qmail. I'd pick exim or postfix over either of those, but then again I've only dealt with smaller mail installations. Take care, Dale -- Dale E. Martin, Clifton Labs, Inc. Senior Comp

multiple ppp connections

2003-09-04 Thread Szőts Róbert
Does anyone know how can I put iptables firewall script onto a firewall where is more ppp connectoins? Expl. There is a firewall with two dsl connection the first is ppp0 the 2nd is the ppp1. It's clear. How can I build firewall If I do not know which dsl connection wil be the ppp0 or the ppp

Re: Sendmail or Qmail ? ..

2003-09-04 Thread Rudi Starcevic
Hi, so how does exim compare in all of this? Sorry Jamie - In my case, and my case alone, Exim doesn't compare. There are many very good MTA's out there. For me I know Sendmail - ( I compile from source ). I've heard lots of good things about Qmail to I did consider that one only. Also every Guru

Re: Sendmail or Qmail ? ..

2003-09-04 Thread Alex Borges
El jue, 04-09-2003 a las 01:47, Jamie Baddeley escribió: > so how does exim compare in all of this? > It doesnt at all Not to ellaborate, but the subject says it all...even then. I hate exim too. > jamie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: Sendmail or Qmail ? ..

2003-09-04 Thread Rudi Starcevic
Hi, >> Why change something thats working perfectly ?? Greg .. Yes that's what I was thinking ..  -- but that's what they also said in Nth America 'til the recent blackouts :-( >> And it has no paralell in security (AGES and AGES better than sendmail) Alex .. That's what mostly appeals to