Which is better for use with MS? Sendmail, postfix, exim..... ..

Furnish, Trever G TGFurnish at HERFF-JONES.COM
Tue Aug 5 19:29:38 IST 2003


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Julian Field [mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK]
>Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 12:05 PM
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: Which is better for use with MS? Sendmail, postfix,
>exim.......

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>> [ ...snip... ]
>
>Out of sendmail, Exim and Postfix, Exim is the fastest too when used in
>conjunction with MailScanner. I virtually always use Exim when
>speed-testing.
>
>Postfix itself is fast, but due to its internal design causes
>a lot more
>I/O with MailScanner than sendmail or Exim.
>
>Sendmail can approach the speed of Exim, but I have yet to
>make it beat it.

Any thoughts on qmail?  Besides sendmail it's the only other mta on *nix
I've run (so far).  Haven't attempted it with MS though.



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