Les Mikesell wrote: > Gilbert Sebenste wrote: > >> On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, Ron Loftin wrote: >> >> >>> As others have already suggested, consider Postfix. >>> >>> I'm putting in my $0.02(US) so I can add my experience when I first had >>> a need for a decent MTA. I had used Sendmail in the past, but I didn't >>> want to fight with the arcane syntax of the config files, and at that >>> time the add-on management tools and scripts were not nearly as friendly >>> to a beginner. >>> >>> When Postfix was suggested to me, I started reading the docs on their >>> Web site, and discovered that the learning curve is nowhere near as >>> steep as it is with Sendmail. So far, Postfix has done everything I >>> have needed, and with a LOT less pain. >>> >>> As always, YMMV. >>> >> +1. Let me throw in something else. If youa re sending more than one email >> at a time (to more than one person simultaneously), Postfix will beat >> Sendmail. It can handle high loads better than Sendmail as well. Is it the >> fastest MTA out there? Doing some Google Fu some time ago, it's right >> there with the very fastest ones. For my job, I need to send out emergency >> notifications to 400 people at once. With Sendmail, that took over 7 >> minutes. >> > > That doesn't make any sense unless you have a backed up queue with at > least many thousands of messages - in which case you should tune > sendmail to use multiple queue directories. > > Maybe he is not using the esmtp mailer. Not doing pipe-lining can make that difference.