Re: Fedora Core 3 and Mail

From: Michael Heiming (michael+USENET_at_www.heiming.de)
Date: 05/26/05 

Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 20:09:15 +0200

In comp.os.linux.setup News Groupie <newsgroupie@newsgroups.com>:

> "News Groupie" <newsgroupie@newsgroups.com> wrote in message
> news:aHble.19484$tM3.17528@twister.nyroc.rr.com...
>>I just installed Fedora Core 3.... why doesn't pine and pico work? I get
>>"bash: pine: command not found" error. Plus I tried setting up Evolution
>>Mail to read email and it appears my mail server isn't running or doesn't
>>exist. Weird cause all this stuff worked in RH Linux 9.
>>
>> What is the problem and how do I get things running normal again?
[..]

> thanx folks. i got pine and pico installed with no problems.

Glad to hear.

> now i was just gonna use sendmail to send and receive internet mail, but now
> i'm curious about the other options mentioned throughout this thread. The
> main reason I need to run a mail server is to host this email/PHP
> application where users email to an account (robot@my-domain.com) and then
> the email is forwarded/passed to a PHP script and then an email is sent out
> to other users. I also need a mail server to simply host basic web site
> email accounts (info, webmaster, help, password, noreply, etc.) and about 5
> user accounts (bob, sally, john, etc.). Would sendmail be able to handle
> possibly hundreds of simultaneous email messages sent to the robot account
> and the be able to send out a lil' more than a thousand simultaneous emails
> or would I need something stronger?

Sendmail handles mail in any volume, it's a MTA depends of course
on your bandwidth and the iron it is running on. Once saw a box
running sendmail getting into a serious mail-loop with a Notes
server. Message flow kept on raising, until the other side came
to a grinding halt. Couldn't impress the system running sendmail
at all.;)

Anyway " *thousand* *simultaneous* *emails*" sounds to me as if
you would just start a career as spammer and I won't give you any
help on that. 

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