John H. Robinson, IV said:
> Mike Odegard wrote:
>> What is the best choice of server email programs?
>>
>> Sendmail? Postfix? Qmail?
>>
>> What about for 200 users? 1000? 5000?
>
> Don't ask about users, ask about number of email transeferred per day.
>
> At one site that transferes on the order of 100,000 mails per day,
> they
> use Sendmail. I don't like sendmail for quite a few reasons. You did
> leave out a couple MTA's on your list: Exim and Zmailer. If you are
> having performance problems with any of the others, look at Zmailer.
>
> However, you are going to have to get into the millions of email per
> day
> to really need the likes of zmailer.
>
Postfix can overwhelm almost any mail server out there. It's quite
capable of handling millions a day. There are some huge mail sites
that use Postfix, including some that use it in front of ezmlm because
qmail can't handle the load. It's more a limitation of hardware than
anything in software.
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