Good tutorial on basic, outgoing-only mail

2011-10-26 Thread René Fournier
I'm slowly switching all my UNIX needs over to Macports packages, from Mac OS X Server's Admin console. This means learning a few new things, such as mail in general, and Postfix in particular. Now, I've found lots of tutorials on Postfix that cover a range of topics, seemingly for moderate-to-

Re: Good tutorial on basic, outgoing-only mail

2011-10-26 Thread Wietse Venema
Ren? Fournier: > I'm slowly switching all my UNIX needs over to Macports packages, > from Mac OS X Server's Admin console. This means learning a few > new things, such as mail in general, and Postfix in particular. > > Now, I've found lots of tutorials on Postfix that cover a range > of topics, see

Re: Good tutorial on basic, outgoing-only mail

2011-10-26 Thread René Fournier
On 2011-10-26, at 5:41 PM, Wietse Venema wrote: > > With high enough volume it may be more productive to hire a > professional email service provider (ESP). I'm not in that business. For a variety of reasons, this isn't an option for us. >> Any suggestions where to start? I suppose there's a bi

Re: Good tutorial on basic, outgoing-only mail

2011-10-26 Thread /dev/rob0
On Wednesday 26 October 2011 18:09:56 René Fournier wrote: > Now, I've found lots of tutorials on Postfix that cover a range of > topics, seemingly for moderate-to-complex needs. Mine are pretty > simple. I have a server that simply needs to send out notification > emails on a regular, high-volume

Re: Good tutorial on basic, outgoing-only mail

2011-10-26 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 07:42:54PM -0600, Ren? Fournier wrote: > > High-volume email is not covered in Postfix documentation as the > > requirements are complex and subject to change. > > Well, high volume is maybe overstating it. I would guess a few > hundred outgoing emails a day, mostly to di

Re: Good tutorial on basic, outgoing-only mail

2011-10-26 Thread René Fournier
Well, I checked, I was off a bit. About 10,000 per day. Still low though it seems. On 2011-10-26, at 9:40 PM, Viktor Dukhovni wrote: > On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 07:42:54PM -0600, Ren? Fournier wrote: > >>> High-volume email is not covered in Postfix documentation as the >>> requirements are compl

Re: Good tutorial on basic, outgoing-only mail

2011-10-27 Thread Wietse Venema
Ren? Fournier: > Well, I checked, I was off a bit. About 10,000 per day. Still low > though it seems. If you send these in a short span of time, then you're still sending bursts of 1000+ messages to major ISPs and are likely to be dropped/deferred/etc. by some, and I recommend taking a look at the

Re: Good tutorial on basic, outgoing-only mail

2011-10-27 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
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