[Mailman-Users] Re: MTAs

2005-03-26 Thread Heather Madrone
...dropping the OS issue, which is not on-topic for this list. At 9:25 PM +0100 3/26/05, Brad Knowles wrote: >> (To be fair to the Powerbook, I was also asking it to be a laptop at the >> time. It could not handle heavy-duty web browsing at the same time >> it was handling peak Mailman loads. Mo

[Mailman-Users] Re: MTAs

2005-03-26 Thread Brad Knowles
At 12:18 PM -0800 2005-03-26, Heather Madrone wrote: One of my concerns with Debian is that Python programs tend to be closely coupled with Python versions. I was concerned that I might be in a position where I'd be stuck in a version of Debian that wouldn't work with a new version of Python (

[Mailman-Users] Re: MTAs

2005-03-26 Thread Heather Madrone
Thank you so much, Derrick. This is exactly the sort of information I was looking for. Of particular interest was the discussion of exim's and postfix's configuration, the performance benchmarks, and your story of running the two MTAs through an underpowered router. At 8:53 AM -0500 3/26/05, Der

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: MTAs

2005-03-26 Thread John W. Baxter
On 3/26/2005 5:53, "Derrick Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fast-forward a couple years to another time I moved, and didn't have > any network for a week or two. I again made that router my backup MX. > This time it was running postfix, and I told postfix to accept at most > 2 simultaneous s

[Mailman-Users] Re: MTAs

2005-03-26 Thread Derrick Hudson
On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 11:55:46AM -0800, Heather Madrone wrote: [...] | We were going with Debian, | which then announced that it's dropping sparc support, Hold up. Debian hasn't announced any such thing. Don't pay attention to the rumors. Some of the project's leadership *proposed* (notice t

[Mailman-Users] Re: MTAs

2005-03-26 Thread Derrick Hudson
On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 06:31:58PM -0800, John W. Baxter wrote: | On 3/25/2005 17:12, "Brad Knowles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | | > This whole Exim 3/Exim 4 thing is not a problem with postfix. | > Don't get me wrong, postfix isn't perfect. But what flaws it has | > tend to be less visible than