Sandy Drobic wrote:
> Sloan wrote:
>   
>> Well, from memory (this was several years ago) we had 2 identical linux
>> test machines, rather modest, hp desktop class hardware as I remember.
>> One was running sendmail, the other postfix, default configs. We fed
>> them both with a mail spool of a few thousand messages and the
>> difference was significant. The postfix box finished processing and
>> delivering the messages in a few minutes. At this point, the sendmail
>> box was thrashing, with a load average around 40. It finally finished
>> about half an hour later.
>>
>> That one test settled the postfix-vs-sendmail debate for me.
>>     
>
> I assume that you configured both systems with reasonable defaults?
>   
Actually that would be the linux vendor - IOW it was straight, "out of
the box" default configs.

Joe
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