Re: Success Story

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Ken Simpson wrote:
> (I'm reposting this -- but in the format suggested on the
> success stories page; apologies for the spam)
> 
> URL: http://www.mailchannels/opensource/
> Title: Running email through mod_perl
> Contact Person: Ken Simpson <ksimpson@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx>
> Traffic: Low (in development)
> Success Story: 
> 
>  We have been using mod_perl successfully for several months now as a
>  flexible email proxy -- we just wrapped Net::Server::Mail and with a
>  few additional hacks and it worked. Matt Sergeant did the same thing
>  with qpsmtpd and I have heard that the performance results were
>  initially very promising
>  (http://msgs.securepoint.com/cgi-bin/get/qmail0411/120/1/1/1.html).
> 
>  More details of our hack (patches etc.) are at
>  http://www.mailchannels.com/opensource and
>  http://search.cpan.org/~mock/Apache-SMTP-0.01/lib/Apache/SMTP.pm.
> 
>  IMHO, using mod_perl as a general application server is a great
>  idea. For us there really was no other viable alternative. We looked
>  at POE, Sendmail's milter API, Net::Server and of course qpsmtpd but
>  the reliability, portability, and scalability of Apache was what
>  caused us to go through the effort of making our bits work on
>  mod_perl.
> 
>  To configure a mail server, it's just a matter of adding a
>  VirtualHost section to the Apache configuration et voila. And as
>  packages such as mod_throttle move over to Apache 2, we will gain the
>  wonderment of a solid resource management tool for mail traffic. Joy!

Thanks Ken.

I've fixed the URLs to:

URL: http://www.mailchannels.com/opensource/
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Apache-SMTP/lib/Apache/SMTP.pm.

a few spelling errors and committed. It will appear here:
http://perl.apache.org/outstanding/success_stories/mailchannels.com.html
within the next 6 hours.

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