Re: Squashing 20,000 rumors...

1999-08-24 Thread Russell Nelson
Magnus Bodin writes: On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Russell Nelson wrote: Not AOL. Hotmail only uses it for outgoing. They tried using it for incoming, but ran into qmail-send's single-threaded processing of incoming email. I think they were the first party to ever run into this

Re: Squashing 20,000 rumors...

1999-08-24 Thread Martin Ouwehand
] It means that qmail-send alternates between spawning jobs and ] processing incoming mail. If mail arrives too quickly, the todo ] section of the queue can create very large directories (because todo ] is not a hashed tree of directories). Once qmail-send gets more than ] 1,000 (or thereabouts

Re: Squashing 20,000 rumors...

1999-08-24 Thread Jos Backus
On Tue, Aug 24, 1999 at 12:51:47PM -, Martin Ouwehand wrote: Which makes me wonder: why aren't the todo and intd trees hashed like mess, info, remote and local ? From what I have heard, Dan's zeroseek technology, scheduled for incorporation in qmail 2.0, is supposed to address this problem

Re: Squashing 20,000 rumors...

1999-08-24 Thread Magnus Bodin
On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Russell Nelson wrote: Magnus Bodin writes: On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Russell Nelson wrote: Not AOL. Hotmail only uses it for outgoing. They tried using it for incoming, but ran into qmail-send's single-threaded processing of incoming email. I think they

Re: Squashing 20,000 rumors...

1999-08-24 Thread Russell Nelson
Magnus Bodin writes: Doesn't your todo-patch fix this? (The "hashed tree of directories"-problem.) Yes. http://www.qmail.org/big-todo.103.patch . -- -russ nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://russnelson.com Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | Government schools are so 521

Re: Squashing 20,000 rumors...

1999-08-24 Thread Matthew Harrell
: Yes, I think this was part of my problem a few days ago (see the "Lots : and lots of qmail-queue's" thread). Which makes me wonder: why aren't : the todo and intd trees hashed like mess, info, remote and local ? On my : busy Solaris server, it took *seconds* to do an "ls" in todo or intd, : so

Re: Squashing 20,000 rumors...

1999-08-23 Thread Daemeon Reiydelle
Magnus Bodin wrote: On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Russell Nelson wrote: Not AOL. Hotmail only uses it for outgoing. They tried using it for incoming, but ran into qmail-send's single-threaded processing of incoming email. I think they were the first party to ever run into this problem, and

Re: Squashing 20,000 rumors...

1999-08-11 Thread Johannes Erdfelt
On Tue, Aug 10, 1999, Russell Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mirko Zeibig writes: Once upon a time someone in this list told (or is it on djb's site?), Redhat would do it's lists with qmail as well. Yes, they used to, but no longer. They had some trouble with qmail, didn't ask for

Squashing 20,000 rumors...

1999-08-10 Thread Russell Nelson
Mirko Zeibig writes: Once upon a time someone in this list told (or is it on djb's site?), Redhat would do it's lists with qmail as well. Yes, they used to, but no longer. They had some trouble with qmail, didn't ask for help, and bagged it. Stanley Horwitz writes: If I am not mistaken,

Re: Squashing 20,000 rumors...

1999-08-10 Thread Ira Abramov
On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Jeffrey Skelton wrote: What about Critical Path? Do they use qmail - or at least something derived from qmail. Egroups.com both in and out, AFAIK, and ezmlm for the list management (or derivative of)

Re: Squashing 20,000 rumors...

1999-08-10 Thread Andre Oppermann
Jeffrey Skelton wrote: At 09:10 AM 8/10/99 , Russell Nelson wrote: Stanley Horwitz writes: If I am not mistaken, AOL and Hotmail both run qmail and as you probably know, there's something like 4,000,000 AOL users. You might find more info of this nature on the Qmail Web site.

Re: Squashing 20,000 rumors...

1999-08-10 Thread Sam
Jeffrey Skelton writes: What about Critical Path? Do they use qmail - or at least something derived from qmail. They host a lot of mailboxes. Netzero runs Qmail on their mail servers. However, it appears that they run qmail-smtpd as root... Naughty boys. -- Sam