Re: [Nolug] Why I don't reply on...

From: Dennis J Harrison Jr <dennisharrison_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 10:52:50 -0500
Message-ID: <6e8b29e0905170852r2d7db47ex67407b4ebc328c32@mail.gmail.com>

*clap clap*

You sure, know how to run a mail server John :)

Like, well. I personally use qmail for the mail servers I'm forced to
run. But we use them for testing, and sometimes handle 25K emails at
once from/to 10-20K mail users we create for that test.

I know *gasp* qmail. It works very, very well for the amount of mail
we're dealing with.

I'm going to guess that you remove return path headers and have proper
spf records. If so, then yeah, you're doing it right.

We haven't actually tested postfix to see if the configuration /
performance is better or worse for our setup. Does anyone here have a
postfix server handling queues greater then ~23,000 separate messages?

On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 7:54 AM, John Fox <john@foxfin.net> wrote:
> I agree with the below statement. At the risk of being banned from this
> list forever, I require Exchange/Blackberry servers (thank you sir, may
> I have another?); hence I run Gentoo/Postfix as a public facing smtp
> srv, together with amavisd-new, clamav, pyzor, razor, spamd (bayesian
> disabled) and finally bogofilter (an excellent and FAST bayesian
> filter). Once my smtp traffic clears the above it is handed off to
> Exchange/BES for distribution. After "training" bogofilter this yields
> an incredibly accurate multi-layer spam filter far superior to anything
> I have seen.
>
> Also, I set up an access hash for postfix to reject known spammy domains
> ie aim.com, bigpenis.info etc.....
>
> That being said, Gmail (actually opensuse.us - thanks Trey Fox no
> relation to me)is my backup and is an excellent service.
> Just my two cents....
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nolug@stoney.kellynet.org
> [mailto:owner-nolug@stoney.kellynet.org] On Behalf Of Ron Johnson
> Sent: Saturday, May 16, 2009 8:27 AM
> To: nolug@nolug.org
> Subject: Re: [Nolug] Why I don't reply on...
>
>
> On 2009-05-15 21:42, Dennis J Harrison Jr wrote:
>> Google knows their poop.  I do agree that you should have a backup.
>> But you unless you're running your own email server as a full time
>> job, you're not going to do as well as the gmail team (and even then
>> it's highly debatable).  Now, the scary thing is if/when they change
>
> Is it really *that* difficult to run an email server like exim or
> postfix?  Once you configure it properly, they just *work*.
>
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