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On Friday 18 June 2004, Martin McCormick wrote:

>=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0How well does the administration of Sendmail scale=
 up to sites
> serving as many as 25,000 users?
  << ... >>
> 	My thanks to everybody who answered my questions.  If we end
> up doing major revisions to our present mail system, I will have this
> information to contribute to the discussion.  My experience with
> sendmail is very positive, but very limited.  I am well aware that one
> person receiving a couple of hundred messages a day on one work
> station is no indicator of how the same MTA might work when hundreds of
> thousands of messages and bounces are roaring around the mail server
> every day.  Again, thank you all.

Don't forget that the sendmail.org folks also offer a "commercial version" =
of=20
sendmail that includes (iirc) some "enhanced" administration tools, and=20
technical support.

hth,
Jay=20