[MPlayer-dev-eng] mailing list changes on mphq (again)

[Gábor Lénárt]

On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 05:56:10PM +0200, Arpi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Lists were very slow since few months, due to high number of subscribers
> (~300 on deveng, ~1100 on users)
> 
> After lots of RTFMing i've found that sendmail is just not capable to handle
> such thing efficiently. So I decided to switch to qmail...
> qmail is nice thing, according to their homepage.
> 
> after a day of rtfming and trial-and-fix-and-hacking i ended up with
> sendmail running at port 25 to handle incoming mails (qmail doens't work
> with mailman, due to access right limitations) and qmail at 26 to send
> outgoing mails to list members. it's ugly but seems to finally work...

As far as I remember, somewhere I've seen some dox about the cooperation
between qmail and mailman.

> 
> note that qmail docs are very outdated or dunno what, but many things
> descrobed there don't work at all. not mentioing that qmail's csh script
> gets syntax error with csh but works with bash etc...

Why do you use csh then? :) I've just killed these ugly things from my
qmail installs with own init script etc etc (and some minor qmail hacks
as well :)

- Gábor