[olug] mail servers - can sendmail handle this?

[Will Langford]

I've had some experience with qmail on centos 3.3 ... it's pretty straight
forward and shouldn't be too much of an issue.

I've done some fiddling with sendmail, absolutely hate it and will never go
back to it.  I don't recall there ever being any limiting factors in the
default sendmail config files... so... I dunno ?  Write a small
bash/python/perl script to send a few thousand emails through your MTA to
see if it croaks ?

-Will
Where's the cool quote on how useless sendmail is except as part of a
sysadmin test...

On 9/6/06, Ryan Stille <ryan at cfwebtools.com> wrote:
>
> I recently setup a web server at work running CentOS (redhat enterprise
> clone).  It comes with sendmail installed.  The only thing I changed in
> the sendmail configuration was to send all mail through our dedicated
> mail server.  I have very little experience with sendmail and had to
> lookup how to do that.
>
> On one of our other (Windows) web servers is a web application that
> sends out a large number of emails, 10,000 emails at one time, and about
> 1500 emails that have a 500Kb newsletter attached at a separate time.
> This is causing slow downs as the application server spools up the
> emails and hands them to the dedicated mail server.
>
> The idea is to move this app to the new linux web server, and have it
> hand off the emails to the localhost to be delivered.  My question is -
> is a default sendmail installation up to this task?  I've pretty much
> heard nothing but complaints about sendmail.  My only other experience
> is with qmail, although I've never gone through a qmail installation
> before.  If I need to switch to a different MTA (or is it an MSA?) I
> would like to stick to one that can be installed as an RPM.
>
> Comments welcome.
> -Ryan
>
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