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| 1 \chapter{Comparison of \MTA{}s} | |
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| 3 % http://shearer.org/MTA_Comparison | |
| 4 % http://www.geocities.com/mailsoftware42/ | |
| 5 % http://fanf.livejournal.com/50917.html | |
| 6 % http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/postfix/2006-07/1762.html | |
| 7 % http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/6849 | |
| 8 % http://www.mailradar.com/mailstat/ | |
| 9 | |
| 10 \section{First release} | |
| 11 sendmail: 1983 | |
| 12 | |
| 13 postfix: 1999 | |
| 14 | |
| 15 qmail: 1996 (first beta 0.70), 1997 (first general 1.0) | |
| 16 | |
| 17 exim: 1995 | |
| 18 | |
| 19 masqmail: 1999 | |
| 20 | |
| 21 exchange: 1993 | |
| 22 | |
| 23 | |
| 24 \section{Lines of code (with sloccount on debian packages)} | |
| 25 sendmail: 93k | |
| 26 | |
| 27 postfix: 92k | |
| 28 | |
| 29 qmail: 18k | |
| 30 | |
| 31 exim: 54k | |
| 32 | |
| 33 masqmail: 14k | |
| 34 | |
| 35 exchange: (no source available) | |
| 36 | |
| 37 | |
| 38 \section{Architecture} | |
| 39 sendmail: monolitic | |
| 40 | |
| 41 postfix: modular | |
| 42 | |
| 43 qmail: modular | |
| 44 | |
| 45 exim: monolitic | |
| 46 | |
| 47 masqmail: monolitic | |
| 48 | |
| 49 exchange: (unknown) | |
| 50 | |
| 51 | |
| 52 \section{Design goals} | |
| 53 sendmail: flexibility | |
| 54 | |
| 55 postfix: performance and security | |
| 56 | |
| 57 qmail: security | |
| 58 | |
| 59 exim: general, flexible \& extensive facilities for checking | |
| 60 | |
| 61 masqmail: for non-permanent internet connection | |
| 62 | |
| 63 exchange: groupware | |
| 64 | |
| 65 | |
| 66 \section{Market share (by Bernstein in 2001)} | |
| 67 sendmail: 42\% | |
| 68 | |
| 69 postfix: 1.6\% | |
| 70 | |
| 71 qmail: 17\% | |
| 72 | |
| 73 exim: 1.6\% | |
| 74 | |
| 75 masqmail: (unknown) | |
| 76 | |
| 77 exchange: 18\% | |
| 78 | |
| 79 | |
| 80 | |
| 81 | |
| 82 1) complexity | |
| 83 | |
| 84 2) security | |
| 85 | |
| 86 3) simplicity of configuration and administration | |
| 87 | |
| 88 4) flexibility of configuration and administration | |
| 89 | |
| 90 5) code size | |
| 91 | |
| 92 6) code quality | |
| 93 | |
| 94 7) documentation (amount and quality) | |
| 95 | |
| 96 8) community (amount and quality) | |
| 97 | |
| 98 9) used it myself | |
| 99 | |
| 100 10) had problems with it |