On Tuesday 27 April 2010 17:24:35 Victor Duchovni wrote: > > $ < /tmp/data pcregrep -c Postfix > 134368
If we are hijacking the thread for how to convince suits to use Postfix... Picking an MTA based only on popularity would have got you sendmail until fairly recently, and I don't think anyone would want that. All the figures show is that lots of people use Postfix. That big companies like AOL and HP use Postfix tells you it is probably suitable for big companies. One wonders why IBM greets like sendmail sometimes though ;) That small mail admins like myself use it tells you it probably isn't too onerous to setup. The hard thing when comparing mail solutions is I believe comparing systems that try to do everything (some include Postfix), versus building from constituent parts. Historically the "do everythings" have been onerously complicated, and/or insecure. But I really can't comment on things like SUN Java Messaging Server, Groupwise, or even current versions of Lotus Notes, other than to say in my experience such combined products have been relatively inflexible (hence a lot of the discussion about putting Postfix in front of Exchange for security and filtering). Of course what is really needed to convince suits is someone to take them to play golf, and explain why paying a lot of money will be good for their company.
