Re: default MTA for sarge
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 01:14:41PM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels 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.
The above test, AFAICT, didn't test that. In fact there's a note saying how
they turned off Exim's preemptive queueing by default :)
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