On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 02:10:24PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: | on Wed, Jul 10, 2002, Paul Sargent (Paul.Sargent@3dlabs.com) wrote: | > Not wanting to start Holy Wars, but I'm involved in setting up a replacement | > e-mail gateway for a company, and I'm wondering what I good choice of MTA | > would be. | | Marc Merlin, president of SVLUG, indicated a month or so back that he is | doing research on this topic for an upcoming LJ article. Discussion on | linux-elitists: | | [linux-elitists] MTA roundup | Sun, 28 Apr 2002 17:37:58 -0700 | Marc MERLIN marc@merlins.org | http://zgp.org/pipermail/linux-elitists/2002-April/004314.html I agree with Marc's conclusion -- choose exim or postfix. He didn't mention some of qmail's bugs in the article, but you can read about them here : http://www-dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de/~ma/qmail-bugs.html Matthias also did a nice performance benchmark of the "big 4" MTAs here : http://www-dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de/~ma/postfix/vsqmail.html (though it is a bit dated now, exim has had several releases since that point) Since Marc's comments on postfix are really brief, I'll outline some of its characteristics here : . it is table driven, you must think in terms of tables and lookups to understand how the pieces work together (this probably contributes to its efficiency) . it is very standards compliant, and also interoperable with other systems . it has many components; different programs that interact and together comprise the whole system . it is very parallel; as such, it does not eliminate duplicate addresses during delivery . like Philip, Wietse knows what he is doing and is also friendly and helpful on the -users mailing list -D -- But As for me and my household, we will serve the Lord. Joshua 24:15 http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/
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