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
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