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by poolpOrg 2493 days ago
I'm an opensmtpd developer.

As far as opensmtpd is concerned, it is production ready and has been used in high volume environments sending mails to millions of recipients daily, handling multi-million queues.

The project was started in 2008 so when it comes to being run in production environments, I think we can claim that it's ready :-)

Now as for the what you would gain, I won't do proselytism, we have published a couple presentations on our website which describe how it works and some of the technical details behind it. You will also find lots of technical details on my blog where I post mostly about OpenSMTPD internals.

If you have a running Postfix, I suggest you don't shift but keep your working setup. If you intend to setup a new MX, you should definitely give a try and see how it goes for you.

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Thank you very much! I shall have a look. I'm thinking of moving servers and setting everything up from scratch in order to modernize all my services and remove legacy cruft. I will definitely consider opensmtpd.