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Re: Why doesn't Exim ever clean out /var/spool/exim/input?



On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 04:37:07PM +0100, Thomas GOIRAND wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <tps@unslept.com>
> To: "Craig Sanders" <cas@taz.net.au>
> Cc: <debian-isp@lists.debian.org>
> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 12:54 AM
> Subject: Re: Why doesn't Exim ever clean out /var/spool/exim/input?
> 
> 
> > On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 10:36:29AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
> > > i can't answer your question, but here's some relevant advice for you:
> > >
> > > exim doesn't scale.  if you want performance, switch to postfix.
> >
> > I'm curious why you say that. I have exim on 3 smtp gateway machines
> > servicing 11G+ email/day, hundreds of thousands of actual messages,
> > doing LDAP lookups for routing, and MailScanner/f-prot running on all
> > the boxes.
> >
> > Seriously, I'm not looking for a fight, just info. When I did performance
> > tests on all the MTAs a few years back, exim beat the crap out of
> > everything.
> 
> Not looking for a fight either, but...
> ALL the MTAs? What are the results for qmail then? I've always heard it's
> the fastest...

I don't have the results after all this time. Exim beat postfix in raw
speed of moving mail in and/or out by over 15%. Qmail came in 3rd in
the tests. However, if you want the most blazingly fast mailer, use
zmailer. It's just not a general purpose MTA

Tim

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