Duh! The real reason I resurrected this thread was to see if anyone had any benchmarking software recommendations for an MTA. I want to slam^H^H^H^Htest the new mail server before I start putting accounts on it. I accidentally stress-tested this machine's predecessor by sending 15,000 mails in a 25 minute period [when I fixed a long-standing misconfiguration on another machine]. It held up fine. Any recommendations, or do I get to invent one? George Toft, CISSP, MSIS 623-203-1760 George Toft wrote: > Resurrecting an old thread . . . > > I just set up the toaster in a development environment and a production > environment. Once I did it in dev, and refined the instructions (and > provided feedback to the toaster team), it took about 4 hours to deploy > in prod (with coffee breaks and phone calls). > > Very simple to deploy, and the Qmail Toaster Admin pages are awesome - I > guess I love graphs :) > > George Toft, CISSP, MSIS > 623-203-1760 > > > > > Eric "Shubes" wrote: > >>Kenneth wrote: >> >> >>>I'm beginning the process of learning about MTAs, MUAs, and whatever all >>>those other acronyms are. I have never had the need to set one up, >>>and still >>>don't really have a need but I thought I would add to my knowledge. >>> >>>What are some good packages I should be looking at? I did a quick >>>install of >>>qmail on Gentoo, but it doesn't seem to want to start up, it's looking >>>for a >>>whole bunch of files in /var/qmail/control that don't exist. I'm not >>>knocking qmail for this, at least yet. I still have to look over the >>>documentation more thoroughly, probably something I didn't do. >>> >> >>The simplest MTA available (TTBOMK) is http://www.qmailtoaster.com. >>I use it myself, and have made a few contributions, so I'm admittedly >>biased. It is only available on RPM-based distros at present (CentOS, >>Fedora, RHEL, Mandriva, SuSE), but I'd like to see someone port it to >>Debian. >> >>This is a full fledged MTA, and includes many features and packages that >>would otherwise take weeks to learn and configure. With QmailToaster, >>you can be up and running in less than a day, with minimal previous >>experience. There are other qmail toasters available, but this one is >>tops. It's made for noobies. >> >>It'd be nice if someone were to create a toaster based on postfix, but I >>don't know of one. >> > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss