Re: Replacing Postfix

[Chuck Swiger <cswiger%mac.com@localhost>]

On Dec 21, 2010, at 2:53 AM, Hauke Fath wrote:
>> Add another ~2MB resident if you also have tlsmgr running.  :-)  But yes,
>> Postfix strikes me as very lightweight compared to most alternative MTAs.
> 
> It does?
> 
> % pkg_info |grep sendmail
> sendmail-8.14.4     The well known Mail Transport Agent
> % top -1 | grep -E 'sendmail|smmsp'
>  701 root      85    0  3040K  992K select     2:33  0.00%  0.00% sendmail
>  586 smmsp     85    0  3040K  884K pause      0:01  0.00%  0.00% sendmail

Do you have SASL and OpenSSL linked into sendmail...?

I get sizes of 7932K / 4036K (vs 5820K / 2732K without) just from starting it 
up, and that grows considerably if you actually send mail through it using 
STARTTLS.  When idle, they seem similar, but when you put even a light load 
through them (say 10K messages per day), sendmail is much bulkier in practice, 
IMO.  Perhaps the fine-grained control of children in Postfix'es main.cf 
contributes to that impression...

Regards,
-- 
-Chuck