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Posted to modperl@perl.apache.org by Ken Simpson <ks...@ghpbjymdczr.mailchannels.com> on 2004/12/06 23:15:25 UTC
Success Story
(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 <ks...@ghpbjymdczr.mailchannels.com>
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!
Regards,
Ken
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Re: Success Story
Posted by Stas Bekman <st...@stason.org>.
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 <ks...@ghpbjymdczr.mailchannels.com>
> 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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Re: Success Story
Posted by David Nicol <da...@gmail.com>.
there was talk at Astercon about doing similar things with
the perl/asterisk interface.
Has anyone ever made a simple wrapper that allows an
arbitrary program to be wrapped, like mod_perl, but
then the wrapper would get invoked from the command line
instead of through an apache server?
> 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
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