Re: thanks-- Re: metrics to show benefits of postfix

2010-09-23 Thread Wietse Venema
Jeroen Geilman put forth on 9/22/2010 5:06 PM: > > I don't know if anybody has run tests of this yet (it's still kinda > new), but it would be instructive to compare a "regular" postfix setup > (pre-postscreen) to a postscreen setup with fairly strict settings, with > respect to the load when a la

Re: thanks-- Re: metrics to show benefits of postfix

2010-09-22 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Jeroen Geilman put forth on 9/22/2010 5:06 PM: > I don't know if anybody has run tests of this yet (it's still kinda > new), but it would be instructive to compare a "regular" postfix setup > (pre-postscreen) to a postscreen setup with fairly strict settings, with > respect to the load when a larg

Re: thanks-- Re: metrics to show benefits of postfix

2010-09-22 Thread Jeroen Geilman
On 09/22/2010 09:57 PM, Jay G. Scott wrote: (at my site) spam arrives in big slugs. when a big slug arrives sendmail will bog down--what wouldn't? A properly configured postfix 2.7+ with postscreen wouldn't. AFAIK your stated problem is exactly why postscreen was developed: to keep k

thanks-- Re: metrics to show benefits of postfix

2010-09-22 Thread Jay G. Scott
RE: metrics for objective postfix vs. sendmail Hi, thanks to all who replied. i was going to summarize, but, then i realized i'm not an authority and should leave that to others, like Victor Duchovni. anyhoo, i'm gonna call this one done. i'm committed to switching to postfix. (i already wa