defeated about Murder.....

[Wesley Craig]

We have patches to lmtpproxyd to refer to the local mailboxes.db,  
which greatly improves performance.

:wes

On 18 Jun 2006, at 09:18, phr2101 at columbia.edu wrote:
> You have lmtpproxyd set up to query the murder master server for
> each message that comes in.
>
> You're options are to
> 1. Have lmtpproxyd query the local server for each incoming message.
> This decreases load on the murder master. You do this by creating a
> config file for lmtpproxyd and setting murder master to the
> localhost. Then you just need to get the auth setup.
>
> 2. By pass the frontends, and have postfix deliver directly to the
> backends
>
> We did 1 for awhile, but would still have occasional (but a lot
> fewer) problems (this is ~ 40K/hr of messages). We then switched to
> 2 (but using sendmail). We have the user/backend information in our
> id system and just create a sendmail alias file for this.  This has
> worked for months without problems.