Re: Postfix as default MTA?
On Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 07:40:11AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
>
> What, exactly, is wrong with Exim? IIRC the reason the list server
> hasn't been switched over was due to non-technical reasons. IE, making sure
> we lost no mail in the process, not that the current default mailer couldn't
> handle the load.
Postfix is much easier to configure and it has the multiple of
exims performance.
Running it here on Debian GNU/Linux, Solaris 7, Solaris 2.6, Solaris 2.5.1,
AIX 4.1, AIX 3.2.5. Altogether around 150 Machines for at least
6 Month.
It is an sendmail drop in replacement which could not be better
and easier to configure.
All the behaviour expected from sendmail (.forward, /etc/aliases,
Programm delivery) is supported, so that all tools used by many
people still work ( procmail, majordomo, cyrus, uucp, fido/ifico etc)
Postfix is secure by design, running in an chroot environment where
possible, trusts no data from outside with a handful of small
programs only granted the rights they really need.
The code is very clean and writing new "plugins" is very simple.
As a performance benchmark:
I have a single machine (P200/128MB) which is ftp2.de.kernel.org
and an official debian mirror (ftp.rfc822.org) and did handle
*.de for the linux-kernel mailinglist. It was delivering with
at 300 Processes and the load did not increase noticeably.
Flo
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Florian Lohoff flo@rfc822.org +49-5241-470566
Good, Fast, Cheap: Pick any two (you can't have all three). (RFC 1925)
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