On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 22:06, John Madden wrote: > > I'm curious on why I'm seeing more references to postfix (both here and > > on googling) when setting up an email server (scalable/high > > performance/etc). > > I can personally vouch for Postfix's performance and relative ease of > administration.
I personally know sendmail and it's user-friendliness, compared to Sendmail. > The number of performance-enhancing knobs to turn is > nearly baffling But some has stated that it's not as tweakble compared to Sendmail. One guy stated he needed sendmail's check_rcpt and check_mail, to basically use LDAP lookups to check whether to relay or not. > , it's incredibly reliable, quite tolerant of the shoddy > SMTP implementations (Exchange, for example) out there, and has a very > good track record security-wise. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on D600 1.4Ghz CPU kernel 2.6.9-gentoo-r1 Neuromancer 11:03:44 up 1:48, 7 users, load average: 2.16, 0.98, 0.54 --- 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
