> I have seen several installations of Postfix go catatonic due to spam > overload, large messages, mailing list expansions, and other undiagnosed > problems. These were run by Postfix lovers, so I have always assumed > that the installation was correct. In the one case I saw tested > replacing Postfix with Sendmail resulted in no further problems.
I have seen equally catastrophic failures of Qmail. Trying to do mail right for everyone in base is an exercise in futility.