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| DATE | 2010-01-31 |
| FROM | Paul Robert Marino
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| SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] The new mail server
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Yea ive seen a flood of automated emails sent via one postfix server
kill a farm of 20 ms exchange servers with a accidental denial of
service attack.
It was the funniest thing I've ever seen because all of the windows SA's
in charge of the MS Exchange farm swore it was impossible despite the
warnings from the Linux SA's.
Just goes to show you don't turn on emails from a monitoring system
until you have tuned it properly, and certainly don't think that windows
can keep up with Linux.
On 1/31/2010 11:14 PM, Ruben Safir wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 05:54:01PM -0500, Ron Guerin wrote:
>
>> Oh, and for whatever it's worth, as a subscriber to this list, I see one
>> very tangible improvement in the new setup vs. the old one. The
>> response time for messages to make the round trip over here was always a
>> long one, and now the list is quite snappy.
>>
>> - Ron
>>
>
> You have to hand that to postfix. I assume there was always a way of
> making sendmail faster, but I never knew enough about it to make it so.
>
> Ruben
>
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