<div>I presume that you are using something more like open VZ or another kernel based virtualization so this warning is possibly not appropriate to your configuration.</div><div><br></div><div>However as a word of warning from experience, I once set up using VMware an SMTP machine for a business (long story why this was the set-up chosen first time around that I was asked to implement). Disk IO stuff (and other things) can be very slow under virtualization and I quickly found that my mail server (which was sending out business communication with hundreds of customers) suffered performance issues because of disk virtualization. </div>
<div><br></div><div>This wasn't a problem when I rebuilt everything under OpenVZ, just VM Ware.</div><div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 17 December 2010 13:42, Julia Freeman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:klug@quixotic.org.uk">klug@quixotic.org.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 12:36:57PM +0000, Peter Childs wrote:<br>
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> Thats what I'm doing currently. (Except I'm using Exim) the issue is that<br>
> certainly 1and1 limit you to 1 email every 10 seconds (which is not really<br>
> very many for a peak load). I've seen similar limits from most other ISPs<br>
><br>
> Trying to get your reverse DNS to match is a pain, Would using a shared<br>
> hosting supplier fix this issue?<br>
><br>
> My reading is that part of the problem is the need for SPF records.....<br>
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</div>Never under estimate the suitability of a virtual machine in a datacenter<br>
running postfix/exim etc... with the correct dns settings as a machine to<br>
send mail from... (trying for the not so blatent plug...)<br>
<br>
J<br>
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