On Tue, Mar 17, 1998 at 10:02:24AM -0800, Curt Sampson wrote:
> I'd check with Brad What's-his-name, the maintainer of the sendmail
> FAQ and AOL's Internet mail systems. I know that he had some neat
> tricks to clean up the queue management, and they were good enough
> that he was running *all* incoming and outgoing mail for AOL though
> a bunch of machines running sendmail.
>
Sure. He was taking down sendmail every 15 minutes or so, renaming his
/var/spool/mqueue directory, creating a new one, and then firing up one
or more sendmail processes to run on that queue. He had like
20 queue directories rotating at any one time.
It worked, but it wasn't exactly straightforward. Plus Sendmail's
memory requirements make it a little unwieldy for most systems to
implement - I have to admit, I am a great fan of Qmail and Exim's
using small, dedicated delivery processes instead of running
the full binary for each task.
I find it most efficient here to run all our inbound mail through
Sendmail, but send all the outbound off to a Qmail system for
delivery. Works like a charm.
-- "The box said Windows 95, Windows NT 4.0, or better .. so I installed Linux."
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