[Mailman-Users] gathering metrics

[Ralf Hildebrandt]

* Joe Hoot <jhoot at nowcom.com>:

> The Lyris is an older version (4.2) and is distributing these using its
> own MTA.  But we've had problems with it sending out messages and lyris
> doesn't give good logging.  So I was thinking of trashing the lyris and
> migrating to mailman so that I could have sendmail or postfix logs.

Then Postfix is probably your best option.
Important things:

a) fast disks
b) fast disks
c) did I mention fast disks?
d) A sane filesystem (ext3? ext2? XFS? RAMFS?)
e) A good filesystem layout (see http://www.stahl.bau.tu-bs.de/~hildeb/postfix/ext3.shtml)
f) http://www.stahl.bau.tu-bs.de/~hildeb/postfix/bottleneck.shtml
g) async syslogd logging

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