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annotate thesis/tex/1-Comparision.tex @ 55:56fd50f9bbf3

reworked text; added MTA definitions; added references; more
author meillo@marmaro.de
date Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:54:56 +0200
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children 1412d283624a
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meillo@31 1 \chapter{Comparison of \MTA{}s}
meillo@26 2
meillo@27 3
meillo@27 4 \section{First release}
meillo@27 5 sendmail: 1983
meillo@27 6
meillo@27 7 postfix: 1999
meillo@27 8
meillo@31 9 qmail: 1996 (first beta 0.70), 1997 (first general 1.0)
meillo@27 10
meillo@27 11 exim: 1995
meillo@27 12
meillo@27 13 masqmail: 1999
meillo@27 14
meillo@27 15 exchange: 1993
meillo@27 16
meillo@27 17
meillo@27 18 \section{Lines of code (with sloccount on debian packages)}
meillo@27 19 sendmail: 93k
meillo@27 20
meillo@27 21 postfix: 92k
meillo@27 22
meillo@27 23 qmail: 18k
meillo@27 24
meillo@27 25 exim: 54k
meillo@27 26
meillo@27 27 masqmail: 14k
meillo@27 28
meillo@27 29 exchange: (no source available)
meillo@27 30
meillo@27 31
meillo@27 32 \section{Architecture}
meillo@27 33 sendmail: monolitic
meillo@27 34
meillo@27 35 postfix: modular
meillo@27 36
meillo@27 37 qmail: modular
meillo@27 38
meillo@27 39 exim: monolitic
meillo@27 40
meillo@27 41 masqmail: monolitic
meillo@27 42
meillo@27 43 exchange: (unknown)
meillo@27 44
meillo@27 45
meillo@27 46 \section{Design goals}
meillo@27 47 sendmail: flexibility
meillo@27 48
meillo@27 49 postfix: performance and security
meillo@27 50
meillo@27 51 qmail: security
meillo@27 52
meillo@27 53 exim: general, flexible \& extensive facilities for checking
meillo@27 54
meillo@27 55 masqmail: for non-permanent internet connection
meillo@27 56
meillo@27 57 exchange: groupware
meillo@27 58
meillo@27 59
meillo@27 60 \section{Market share (by Bernstein in 2001)}
meillo@27 61 sendmail: 42\%
meillo@27 62
meillo@27 63 postfix: 1.6\%
meillo@27 64
meillo@27 65 qmail: 17\%
meillo@27 66
meillo@27 67 exim: 1.6\%
meillo@27 68
meillo@27 69 masqmail: (unknown)
meillo@27 70
meillo@27 71 exchange: 18\%