Zitat von Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 16:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > - A careful sendmail/milter setup with a strong machine can be faster then > > Qmail/Postfix with traditional store/forward content filter. > > I'm running sendmail 8.13+clamav-milter+spamass-milter and during the > mornings when I fetchmail from my sever, to be fed to my local MTA, The > load is quite high. Most likely due to the milters. > > I don't get the store/forward content filter meaning.
This means that Postfix is accepting & storing the mail, after that hand it off to some heavy content filter for processing. > > - Qmail and Postfix are considered more secure than Sendmail. > Ditto. but being considered does not necessary mean it is. You can have a look at the security history ... > > - Postfix and Sendmail are more flexibel in adjusting to your sepcial > > setup. > I like sendmail maybe because I know of it's Features. > > I esp like sendmail after I found the "FALLBACK_MX" feature. (sendmail > will try to lookup and send direct via recipient MX 1st, if it fails, > then it goes to the fallback_mx which is most likely the ISP relay) > > Does postfix support this? If you mean trying all available MX - Until < 2.1 only if the first can not be contacted - Since 2.1 in every case the first fails Another choice is fallback_relay > > > > No Sendmail guru here, but if you use procmail you have lost on the > > performance comparsion ;-) > > Fedora/redhat by default uses procmail as it's default lmtp. > > what do you use then? Is Cyrus considered a LMTP or..? Postfix can do lmtp native. No need to plug procmail in beetween to invoke cyrus-deliver to start some lmtp transfer to the Cyrus mailstore. Regards Andreas --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
