On Thursday 25 October 2001 10:48, Timothy Brier wrote: > I couldn't agree more. I was using the RPMs from RedHat with Sendmail. > It was taking about 30 minutes to deliver 500 messages. > > I downloaded and installed Postfix (not the RPM) and watched the time > drop to 1 minute and 45 seconds. > I run Sendmail at work (and have also run Postfix). I run Postfix at home and at a few contract clients - Mandrake defaults to postfix. The postfix works just fine, and I have no problems with it. My sendmail works just fine and I have no problems with it either.
The performance I get with loads of 100k messages/day is very similar with both Postfix and Sendmail. If it is taking you over 5 minutes to deliver 500 messages (< 50k each) from a sendmail server, then something is wrong with: - the install/configuration of your Sendmail - the cpu/disk subsystem of your PC - your DNS must be caca. === I my corporate mail servers, I install Sendmail from source and optimize it based on the articles on http://www.sendmail.org. The whole process takes about 4 hours, and the end result is a spiffy mailserver that handles a pounding very well and keeps delivering. I have no bias against Postfix. I like it just fine. Sendmail also works just fine. Now if you are processing huge amounts of email on a nice server with SCSI disk subsystems, you will see a definite advantage while using Postfix. This advantage is lost however on a moderate level server with an IDE disk subsystem. Just speaking from my own experience. If anyone has a real definitive study showing otherwise, I would like to see it. Jon Carnes ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
