Re: default MTA for sarge
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 12:56:50PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> A thousand consecutive mails to a single recipient is a mail bomb and rather
> than expecting stunning performance from MTA in helping the user get
> annoyed, any admin would reach for the banning commands ASAP. The result
> remotely relevant to the real world is the last one, one with 100 mails to
> 10 recipients. Frankly, I expected the margin to be in Postfix's favor
> considerably more than 125/s vs. 91/s.
It is a very important situation. Consider the fact, that a large mail
hoster will quickly queue thousands of mails to the same MX of another large
email provider.
>From my experience I know, that downtime of AOL (or any other major user
provider) may regularly fill CDs full of backlog, and require very
sophisticated MTA fallback and retry. smail was very poor with this, Exim
performs pretty well, if you configure it. Not sure about postfix, qmail is
also doing quite well, with the exception of limited concurrency in the
unpatched version.
Greetings
Bernd
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