[Mailman-Users] Performance comparison between mailman, majordomo and sympa?

[Christopher Petrilli]

Robert [Robert at grapevine2.com] wrote:
> >I would say that performance is more dependenyt on your mailer, not your
> >mailing list manager.  For that, look at Qmail or Postfix (my favorie),
> >rather than Sendmail.
> 
> To process 30,000 accounts on Athlon 550Mhz server (with 512Mb RAM), using 
> Sendmail, with 25k message size, it would take around 40 minutes to flush 
> out all messages.

A comparable benchmark on Postfix would be around 1/10th the time, and load
as well... it wasn't 25K, but... 

Chris
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