On Thu, January 18, 2007 08:21, David F. Skoll wrote: > (My marketing people will kill me for mentioning competitors...) > Two big ones come to mind: Brightmail and PureMessage. Also, some > outsourced solutions like Postini and MessageLabs seem to do at least some > rejection during the SMTP conversation.
I have a fair bit of experience with PureMessage... they apparently don't like sendmail very much (as coders atleast). my work uses PM and their support kept telling our mail managers they should consider postfix. i cut my teeth on sendmail and told them everything those support people were telling them was wrong (about sendmail). out of hte box (using supplied versions of sendmail and postfix), the PM+postfix was handling about 700 to 800 messages a minute on a given test system. their stock PM+sendmail only would do about 300 or so per minute. i screamed bullchit... about 10 minutes of config tweaking (to their build only, not recompiling) and it was handling 850 to 950 per minute using sendmail. that isn't an issue though, i personally don't like PM due to the fact that it is a serious resource hog. much worse than any install of MD that I have used. 2 sun 280r (dual 900mhz proc, 5gig ram, 2x36gig disks) systems were used as internet facing MX hosts, and both were fairly loaded all day (all inbound mail for about 20,000 employees, + spam). we were rejecting about 300,000 connections per day using the greet_pause alone, and still getting another 400k to 500k spam messages per day, when they were using sendmail. they have sense switched to PM+postfix, so i offer no advice or help to them anymore (which was one of the things they were told when they made the decision by my bosses. they would only get OS/hardware level support from me). of the 3 systems (md/canit, brightmail, PM), i personally lean toward md/canit. it's by far the most admin friendly, assuming you know wtf you are doing. a someone else said lately, it's the swiss army knife in my tool belt. all my personal stuff (where i can that is) uses MD... _______________________________________________ NOTE: If there is a disclaimer or other legal boilerplate in the above message, it is NULL AND VOID. You may ignore it. Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.roaringpenguin.com MIMEDefang mailing list [email protected] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
