From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Dec 12 4:29:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25B3E37B401 for ; Thu, 12 Dec 2002 04:29:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from relay.kiev.sovam.com (relay.kiev.sovam.com [212.109.32.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E027443EB2 for ; Thu, 12 Dec 2002 04:29:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dimitry@al.org.ua) Received: from [212.109.32.116] (helo=dimitry.kiev.sovam.com) by relay.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1) id 18MST7-000AIg-00 for freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:29:33 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" From: Dmitry Alyabyev Reply-To: dimitry@al.org.ua To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: the mail server debate Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:29:32 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <3DF7B714.14133.4FDB185@localhost> <20021212122045.GA48456@blazingdot.com> In-Reply-To: <20021212122045.GA48456@blazingdot.com> X-NCC-RegID: ua.svitonline MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200212121429.32807.dimitry@al.org.ua> Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thursday 12 December 2002 14:20, Marcus Reid wrote: > On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 10:07:16PM -0500, Leonard Jacobs wrote: > > Are there any benchmarks comparing the various MTAs on FreeBSD? How > > do people make their coices? Is it fair to say the comparisons are > > between: Sendmail, Qmail, Postfix and Courier? > > The main religious war is between qmail and Postfix. Whether they can > handle the load of 5,000 average users is not a question. Both have high > emphasis on security and reliability. Postfix changes more often and has > more emphasis on the feature-of-the-week. But then again, Postfix changes > more often and has more emphasis on the feature-of-the-week. Both are > quite capable. It comes down to a matter of personal taste, and I recommend > that you play with both, though I'd venture that you might have to spend > a good deal of time with either system to really understand why people like > it so much. guys, why you do not mind Exim ? -- Dimitry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message