Mail server recommendations?

[George Toft]

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.
>>
> 
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