Re: [OT] Dns servers

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In a default postfix install ( v 2 ) does this 'bloating' use up alot of sys
resources?  Or does the default config/install pretty much make postfix
efficient on memory and cpu?

Bloat was a prob with sendmail are we seeing postfix going down a path of
inefficencly?

-matt 
--- Wietse Venema <wietse@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Tony Earnshaw:
> > Oh, and the alternative to "the bloat of Sendmail" seems to be Postfix, on
> > most +n+x systems now days.
> 
> Caution: Postfix without TLS and IPv6 is already several times
> bigger than Sendmail was at the time Postfix was released (this is
> source line count without comments). Postfix has tripled in size
> since the initial public release.
> 
> The "bloat of Postfix" is mostly in
> 
> - extension mechanisms such as lookup tables, policy delegation
> and content filtering,
> 
> - optional services such as session caching, address verification
> database, and anvil rate control.
> 
> You can turn most of that stuff off (or even remove executables)
> and never have to worry about it.
> 
> 	Wietse
>