[lug] mail servers

rm at mamma.varadinet.de rm at mamma.varadinet.de
Wed Jul 19 09:06:27 MDT 2000


On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 08:59:24AM -0600, Sean Reifschneider wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 07:43:00AM -0700, Tom Tromey wrote:
> >How is the performance?
> 
> Postfix has a similar performance profile to qmail.  The benchmarking I did
> about a year ago suggests that postfix may even be faster than QMail at
> sending out mail to a ton of recipients (400,000 unique messages).  The
> reason we didn't end up using Postfix was that at that time it didn't
> implement bounce handling as we expected.

Ah, one thing that needs to be mentioned:
AFAIK Postfix doesn't handle ESMTP ETRN commands.

 Ralf




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