[Sysadmin] Come on then... decision time

[Judah McAuley]

John Handelaar wrote:

> 1.  Qmail+vpopmail+mysql 
> 2.  Postfix 
> 3.  Sendmail 
> 4.  Exim

I'll cast a vote for option 1, mostly because its the one I've set up 
before. It is a bit of a beast to admin though, I'll admit. I've looked 
at Postfix before and it seemed quite nice and I'd be happy to learn it. 
Same goes for Exim. Sendmail, of course, is devil spawn and makes about 
as much sense as installing Telnet so we have a big "Kick Me" sign on 
the box.

I did a bit of poking around and should it come down to Postfix vs. 
Exim, I'm liking what I see in the Postfix documentation a bit better I 
think.

As for load handling, it looks like Qmail, Postfix, and Exim could all 
handle to load on that hardware we are giving it.

Slightly old benchmark comparison: 
http://www-dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de/~ma/postfix/bench2.html

Judah