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. -- Paul Heinlein <> heinlein at madboa.com <> www.madboa.com