Cobalt RaQ Mailman HOWTO (for the archives)
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This message is for the archives, as it seems every couple of days I get someone emailing me asking for a HOWTO I supposedly wrote on the subject (thanks to my good friend John Carnes who posted that back on Apr 23, 2002)
I have not written a HOWTO on how to get Mailman to work on the Cobalt RaQ. I have gotten it to work, on a consulting basis, and it worked fine (though it does not install like a normal system). I'm happy to do it again on a consulting basis, but really don't have the time to write a book on the subject. Hopefully this message will come up in searches before the other one.
For those of you considering PURCHASING a Cobalt RaQ for the purpose of
running Mailman, please don't. I'm not referring to any fault of
Mailman, but the RaQ can be thought of like a toaster. A toaster will
apply heat to toast for a certain amount of time and eject the finished
toast. That's all a toaster does, but it does it really well.
Toasters make lousy coffee machines. IMHO, you'll save yourself some
$$$ and aggravation if you purchase kit that runs a more standardized
version of Linux, *BSD, Solaris, etc. For about $1,000 you can have a
really stellar 1U rackmount machine running a more standardized OS
flavor and move more mail in less time than the low performance RaQ
hardware. If you're going to run really mondo huge high traffic
mailing lists, the RaQ isn't going to keep up with your demands anyway.
So no matter how you slice it, the RaQ is not a cost effective
platform for deploying Mailman. I have other beefs with the platform
that I won't get into here because they aren't Mailman specific. Yes,
I can get it to work. No, I wouldn't promote this as a good platform
for your mailing list server.
Chris Hedemark Hillsborough, NC http://yonderway.com
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My apologies to Chris! I had intended to merely ask you to write a HowTo. I didn't think I attributed one to you.
I've heard the harrowing tale of Chris's Herculean efforts at putting Mailman on the Cobalt RaQ. It was an amazing feat for which Chris was not richly rewarded. I won't relay more of what I've heard. Suffice it to say though that Chris now knows more about Mailman than 90% of this user base!
Take care - Jon Carnes
----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Hedemark" <chris@yonderway.com> To: <mailman-users@python.org> Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 1:07 AM Subject: [Mailman-Users] Cobalt RaQ Mailman HOWTO (for the archives)
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This message is for the archives, as it seems every couple of days I get someone emailing me asking for a HOWTO I supposedly wrote on the subject (thanks to my good friend John Carnes who posted that back on Apr 23, 2002)
I have not written a HOWTO on how to get Mailman to work on the Cobalt RaQ. I have gotten it to work, on a consulting basis, and it worked fine (though it does not install like a normal system). I'm happy to do it again on a consulting basis, but really don't have the time to write a book on the subject. Hopefully this message will come up in searches before the other one.
For those of you considering PURCHASING a Cobalt RaQ for the purpose of running Mailman, please don't. I'm not referring to any fault of Mailman, but the RaQ can be thought of like a toaster. A toaster will apply heat to toast for a certain amount of time and eject the finished toast. That's all a toaster does, but it does it really well. Toasters make lousy coffee machines. IMHO, you'll save yourself some $$$ and aggravation if you purchase kit that runs a more standardized version of Linux, *BSD, Solaris, etc. For about $1,000 you can have a really stellar 1U rackmount machine running a more standardized OS flavor and move more mail in less time than the low performance RaQ hardware. If you're going to run really mondo huge high traffic mailing lists, the RaQ isn't going to keep up with your demands anyway. So no matter how you slice it, the RaQ is not a cost effective platform for deploying Mailman. I have other beefs with the platform that I won't get into here because they aren't Mailman specific. Yes, I can get it to work. No, I wouldn't promote this as a good platform for your mailing list server.
Chris Hedemark Hillsborough, NC http://yonderway.com
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