On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 09:40:41PM +0000, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 07:06:34PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Wed,23.Sep.09, 10:52:09, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > > > > > All UNIX and Linux boxes should have an MTA. It doesn't always need to > > > listen > > > on 25 or 587, but both postfix and exim4 support that. > > > > How about a PIII-500 machine with 384 MB RAM running from an 1GB USB > > stick? I prefer using the resources for mpd, rtorrent, ... than a MTA > > which is only needed when cron has errors. > > Postfix: installed size of 3196. > exim: 3685 (exim4, exim4-base, exim4-daemon-light, exim4-config > > Compare that to gdm (15215), perl (18304), python2.5 (10752) and others. > > If you run from a compressed system, the compressed size is more > relevant, and thus you're more interested in the package sizes. In which > case they are: > > Postfix: 1270 > Exim: 1760 > > As for memory usage: my system has much more memory consumed by bash and > vim processes than by postfix processes. Though the main memory consumer > is by far iceweaser, and pidgin, gajim and xchat are following. I don't > really worry about the resources used by a few little postfix processes. > > Again: there is a real value in an MTA that can queue mail and deliver > it when your system is once again connected to the network. If you think > this queueing should be done by the mailers themselves, that's fine. But > it means they have to be made extra smart and aware of the configuration > of the system. I rather let the system be aware of the configuration of > the system.
Thinking about it again: Kmail, Evolution, and such can't really tell what's in the queue of the local sendmail. Let alone kick a message from there. Postfix's mailq is something any local user can use. But there's a limit to the amount of details it can provide. I'm not sure of the mainlers can make up a useful display of that. Exim's queue display commands (I don't remember them) require super-user permissions but provide slightly better control of the details and sorting order, IIRC. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org