[SunRescue] Memory questions

Paul Khoury pkhoury3 at earthlink.net
Sat Mar 18 04:50:44 CST 2000


On Fri, 17 Mar 2000 16:01:59 -0600, Bill Bradford wrote:

>On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 08:58:36PM -0000, jwbirdsa at picarefy.picarefy.com wrote:
>> >>sendmail (if you don't run it, obviously)
>> >Might run that if I learn to configure it, for email for the users on
>> >the machine
>>    Qmail is more secure and vastly easier to configure. I suspect its
>> memory footprint is smaller but I don't honestly know. Check it out at
>> www.qmail.org.
>>    --James B.
>
>Qmail is good if you can *start out* with it; however if you've got a 
>legacy Sendmail config, try Postfix - www.postfix.org - I switched over a
>10,000-user mail server to Postfix in less than 30 minutes (and that included
>downloading and compiling the program).  All your existing config/virtualhosts/
>domains/etc files will drop right in.
>
Right now I only have 4 important users, nothing large:

root
root
root
and pkhoury (the regular acct I never use).

Ahh, the power trip with being root... =)

I'm just curious, what kind of server was it that you migrated those 10K users on?
I'm sure it'd take longer on my SS2...

Paul








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