Postfix

[Edgar Allen]

> 
> Solution 3: Ditch Postfix.  No.  The list users love postfix because they
> are getting their messages up to 1/2 hour earlier, even though I was using
> bulk-mailer with sendmail.  (They didn't say, "Postfix is great", they
> said, "Gosh, everything is working a lot quicker now.  What did you do?") 
> Postfix delivered 110,000 messages last week. It rarely uses more than a
> few percent of the CPU (An ancient Pentium 100 running Redhat 6 with 32
> Meg). I have tried to dump a big load of stuff on it all at once, it sorts
> it out real fast, without bouncing messages because of overload.  It
> configures more quickly and sanely than sendmail. It is arguably more
> secure than sendmail can be, since it is a bunch of small pieces that do
> not run with more privs than they need, and was written by a security guru
> with security in mind from the start. I have years of experience with
> sendmail and I like it.  Postfix is just better, especially for this. 
> 

I am forwarding this because I agree with everything it says and I
wanted you all to know that I intend to replace sendmail with postfix
any time I can.  Most times it just drops in and works fine.

As he says above, "Postfix is just better".

		Ed Allen