On 29/03/04 19:52 +0530, Soumava Das wrote:
> Hi,
> I am about to setup a mail server in our department. Can you
> suggest which MTA to use? I am told exim can bounce mail at SMTP
> time? Cam postfix do the same?
Personal order of preference
qmail (it is the most beautiful piece of C programming I have ever seen)
Also qmail code is just around 16000 lines, many times
smaller than postfix.
Postfix
(I can't comment on exim, never used it). If you are bothered about
security, sendmail is not an option.
As far as bandwidth is concerned, postfix handles it much better
than qmail (if the mail is addressed to multiple recipients). For mails
addressed to single recipients, it does not make a difference.
If you do not have money to spend on good hardware and yet have to
process enormous amount of local mail delivery, qmail with the big-todo
patch and a patch for 'silly qmail syndrome' does better than postfix (I
had to pull out postfix out of production on a server which did
600000 emails/day. The load on my box used to shoot > 100 with
postfix running. With qmail however the load remained below 20.
On a server doing largely remote deliveries I have not found much
difference between qmail and postfix.
Best is to try out both and figure out (like I did). You will learn more
that way. You will find very strong opinions from both the Postfix
community and the qmail community and it can be confusing for a newbie
to decide.
:)
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