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Re: Does Postfix support 64bit platform ?

Subject: Re: Does Postfix support 64bit platform ?
From: Matthias Andree <ma AT dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund DOT de>
To: postfix-users AT postfix DOT org
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2007 21:31:02 +0200
"Truong Tan Son" <sontt AT fcv.fujitsu DOT com> writes:

> Dear Sir,
>
> I have plan to install Postfix to RHEL x86_64 because of more power in 
> transferring messages of this software.
>
> I like to install it by source code (.tar.gz) because it has more options, 
> but hesitate it can support 64bit or can not.
>
>
> Does Postfix support 64bit with installation by source code ?

I have personally never bothered to install 64 bit versions on platforms
that can efficiently handle 32- and 64-bit executables at the same time,
such as UltraSPARC or x86_64 - Postfix doesn't need that much memory
you'd actually gain something from using 64-bit code.

-- 
Matthias Andree

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