Re: Postfix as default MTA?
On Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 03:09:52PM +0200, Samuel Tardieu wrote:
> On 29/06, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> | On Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 11:30:55PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> | > Really? Authors of postfix and qmail made many benchmark.
> |
> | Is performance the best criteria for choosing a default MTA?
>
> Not the best one, but one of them. We're looking for a universal MTA, which
> must, in some circumstances, be able to handle heavy loads. So efficiency
> doesn't hurt.
If you can have performance as well as simplicity/documentation and
security (and it sounds like postfix has all three), then so much the better.
I would compromise performance before simplicity for a default MTA.
Hamish
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