Fedora Core 3

[Tom Diehl]

On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Michael A. Peters wrote:

> On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 14:34, Tom Diehl wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Postfix provides the functionality of sendmail in almost 100% of cases.
> > Please do not start the usual religious war about how much better 1 is over
> > the other. I am just stating a fact.
> 
> My dad has been ad admin at Cal since before I was born.
> Fairly recently they looked at Postfix for their mail, and their
> analysis after testing was that they would need more resources to get
> the performance out of postfix that they get out of sendmail.

Not to start a religious war but I suspect there are a lot of postfix users
that would dispute that. I do not run a high volume site so I cannot comment
from first hand experience but I have seen some discussions in the past about
resource requirements of sendmail vs postfix and the people involved seem to
think postfix wins hands down. It would be interesting to put their data up
against your dad's data. Unfortunately I doubt that is possible given none of
the parties mentioned are involved in this discussion. :-)

> And it's not a love for sendmail biased analysis - they have serious
> concerns about sendmail as a company not making it for very much longer.

If sendmail is really in trouble then I would submit that that is an indication
of how the market in general feels about their product. OTOH maybe it hust means
that the other free products including their own are good enough for most people.

> Granted this was Solaris, but still.

I would think that the results should be comprable but .....

Regards,

Tom