Fedora Core 3

[Michael A. Peters]

On Sat, 2004-04-24 at 05:05, Tom Diehl wrote:

> > 
> > 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. :-)

Yeah I don't know - it was performance related to sending the filtering
process that sendmail did a better job of. I don't know - they tried
some others too, and sendmail was the only one that performed decently
under heavy load.


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