[lug] mail servers

[andrew at netdelivery.com]

On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 07:43:00AM -0700, Tom Tromey wrote:
> Glenn> We've had some success with Postfix.  For what we do it is
> Glenn> easier to configure than qmail.
> 
> How is the performance?
> 
> On sourceware we use qmail.  I don't know much about it (I haven't
> been involved with the mailing list administration much), except that
> I was told it is "very different" and that I know it is very, very
> fast.
> 
> Tom

Postfix performance is good.  On the postfix maillist you'll generally
hear that qmail is sometimes better for large volume mail lists, and 
postfix is is better for discrete messages.

As a side note, the fellow who writes postfix (Wietse) co-authored SATAN,
I believe.

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Andrew Diederich
andrew at netdelivery.com