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Subject: Re: Red Hat 6.2? From: Brian <signal@shreve.net> Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 14:37:02 -0600 (CST) > On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Brian wrote: > > =>On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Toby A. Rider wrote: > => > =>Yes, these are good for the enterprise and the user alike. > => > =>One thing I would like to see, which Redhat does not have, is a hashed > =>mail spool. If they aren't going to store messages in maildir format, or > =>some other high load friendly format, then they should imho, hash the > =>mailspool, or allow it to be hashed without having to patch and recompile > =>procmail and the popper. > => > =>I would also like to see them use cucipop instead of qpopper, since its a > =>perfect match for procmail............ > => > =>A traditional mail spool does not scale well above say 2500 users. > => On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Steven W. Orr wrote: > I'm not sure this is a Red Hat issue. Is it? Sure it is. > > Red had is a packaging agent if you will. They take all the components > that are available on the 'net and just package them. No true. RPM and packaging are only a small part of what Redhat is. Redhat patches and configures packages to work together. For example, Do you think the kernel shipped with Redhat is the same kernel you can just download from kernel.org? No, it has about 30 patches/backports applied to it. > I just remember back in The Bad Olde Days when SCO did a whole lot of > enhancing to the point where working on a SCO system was fundamentally > different than working on an SVR3 system. Maybe the point that I'm *not* > trying to make was that Interactive went out of business, leaving us with > SCO. > > On the whole, if RH wants to develop open source software that does what > you want, I'm happy, but I'm terrified that RH will end up developing > something commercial to provide for your requirements and then stop > supplying the standard sendmail install. Let's also not forget that SCO > switched over MMDF. :-) What I am talking about has nothing to do with Sendmail.......sigh.........sendmail is configurable via mc/cf files, I am not worried about Sendmail, and sendmail is not even involved in accessing mailboxes. What I am talking about is the pop daemon (qpopper) and the local mailer (procmail). You can't just pass an argument to these to get them to hash a mail spool (wish you could). Redhat can configure these at compile time however, to do this, so that out of the box, redhat could scale to a larger mail server than say 2500 users. ===