On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Chris Mauritz wrote:
Craig White wrote:
And it works well. I've been using postfix since 1998-ish and haven't even considered going back to sendwhale since. Postfix is faster (by a rather wide margin) and much easier to maintain. And now I don't have to speak in tongues (M4) to edit my config files. 8-)
Really? Did you have some empirical evidence for this performance difference or was this a subjective conclusion by someone what apparently never got the m4 macro concept down?
Yes, I did head to head comparisons about 5 years go on the same hardware. Postfix was the fastest, qmail was next, and sendmail was slowest. I believe I've also seen similar benchmarks posted on the net. I had to do independent testing to satisfy a skeptical consulting cilent.
In the systems I administer -- small sites, to be sure -- the MTA itself doesn't impact the speed of delivery nearly as much as anti-virus and anti-spam scanners.