On Thu, September 6, 2007 7:16 pm, Steve Holdoway wrote: > On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 10:19:12 +1200 > Jim Cheetham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 06/09/07, Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > The last problem with sendmail reported for 8.13.8, over a year ago so >> I think your comments could be considered overly critical, given the >> volumes of email it processes, it's one of the biggest ( some say the >> biggest - http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/6849 ) targets. >> > >> > This compares well with postfix, qmail, exim and far better than >> exchange. >> >> Sendmail: very capable, but with the most disgusting configuration >> I've ever ever seen. Yes, I've written functional cf files from >> scratch, before all that macro rubbish :-) > Blimey! I must have been using m4 for over 15 years... how old's sendmail > now? >> >> qmail: horribly fast, with the second-most disgusting configuration >> I've ever seen. Plus is has no "features" for extension, without >> hacking source code that has no understandable license. > Qmail is completely unable to compete with sendmail in extremely busy > environments ( like monday morning in the US (: ) because sendmail runs > the mta and lda asynchronously, allowing for it to ride over those really > busy periods and then catch up with dumping into client mailboxes when > everything dies down. Qmail is a single pipeline from end to end. Also, > there is *no* significant speed difference between the two. Exchange on > the other hand is about an order of magnitude slower than both. Trust me > on this, I've done a *lot* of benchmarking... >> >> postfix: does pretty much everything, as long as you find out what >> unexpected config line to use. Very reliable, seems to be the MTA of >> popular choice at the moment. > I think it depends on your needs. Looking at that survey, it seems that > Sendmail is still way out in front. Given that it doesn't come as a > default install for anything I know of ( not even *BSD! ) that sort of > does say something.
yes postfix is the default mta in quite a few distros actually. -- Nick Rout
