A few months back we had a professional with significant experience with
sendmail speak to the MELBA lug about his experience with sendmail in a
large commercial environment. This young professional went over the simple
configurations for normal use, spoke to the various issues with security and
configuration clearly and patiently and helpfully answered questions from
individuals having difficulty with getting sendmail to behave for them. He
also described, with specific examples from his experience, the throughput
he was able to achieve with sendmail and what configurations enabled that
level of throughput. I found it interesting and impressive.
Our organization is using qMail because our sysadmin has chosen it for
whatever reason. I am not interested in configuring either of them so I
won't argue with him. We don't need extreme throughput and if ever we do I
will ask my sysadmin to achieve it without worrying about his judgement in
choosing a solution.
I would find it very interesting to hear from someone who has used qmail in
a large commercial install and see the objective statistics about the
performance and throughput of that solution. When the day is done. The
PHB's spend the money and they buy solutions that provide the operational
need. The effort to configure is the problem of the sysadmin and many a
career has been made on configuring the solution that provides the
operational performance needed. If you only need to get to the store for
groceries you will not employ an indy pit crew. If you need to win the indy
500 you will.
I have concientiously read most of the posts on this thread looking for the
information that would help me to validate our decision to go with qMail and
have found nothing objective to support my sysadmin's choice. I trust my
sysadmin to do the necessary research and to change solutions as necessary
to achive our operational goals.
As a reader of this list I find the occasional flame war entertaining and
the general level of helpfulness high. When a flame war becomes all
consuming and my inbox has >60 messages on the flame and nothing helpful
then it is time to wonder why I bother subjecting myself to reading it.
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