MEPES: Methodology for Evaluating the Performance of E-Mail Servers

The purpose of the article was to develop a methodology for evaluating performance of e-mail servers and to compare the performance of e-mail servers based on free software (freeware and open source software) with the performance of payment licensed e-mail servers, with an integrated focus. For obta...

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Published inInternational journal of open source software & processes Vol. 9; no. 4; pp. 47 - 64
Main Authors Calderón, Pedro Alexis Torres, Paredes, Emigdio Antonio Alfaro
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Hershey IGI Global 01.10.2018
Subjects
Computer viruses
Electronic mail
Electronic mail systems
Freeware
Integrated approach
Internet
Licenses
Mail
Open source software
Performance evaluation
Public domain
Servers
Software
Workloads
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Summary:The purpose of the article was to develop a methodology for evaluating performance of e-mail servers and to compare the performance of e-mail servers based on free software (freeware and open source software) with the performance of payment licensed e-mail servers, with an integrated focus. For obtaining this purpose, a descriptive and experimental study was developed, which population included 33 e-mail servers. Two e-mail servers with free license (Sendmail and Postfix) and two e-mail servers with payment license (Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Domino) were compared. For evaluating the performance (antispam capacity, antivirus filtering, and server resource consumption), special applications for that purpose were used. Finally, it was determined that the two products of e-mail servers implemented with free software (Sendmail and Postfix) had higher performance than the two licensed e-mail servers (Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Domino) which were implemented, under the conditions given in this research.
ISSN:1942-3926
1942-3934
DOI:10.4018/IJOSSP.2018100103