postfix or qmail?

[ANdrei]

I don't think that qMail is *that* bad :) it's actually a really good piece 
of software, has lots of addons u can use with it and it sure is quite 
fast... we managed 20.000+ internet domains (i suppose about 50.000+ eMail 
boxes) on a single Pentium around 1GHz with 512MB RAM, and it kept going... 
that is what I can say...

but I agree with most of the people here, qMail is not that easy to 
maintain, and it has a number of weird things it does... u can however 
secure it so it doesn't act as a spam relay and u can do many neat things 
with it, it has no security flaws that u can't fix (fairly easy), and in a 
few years that I administered qMail-systems in production (3 of these 
50.000+ account servers) I never came across a serios bug that was not to be 
fixed (actually each time it was already done, but we weren't carefull 
enough before we had the problem :)

so, I would say that qMail is quite good. I did not find it easy to work 
with it though, and I think that there *must* be smtg nicer out there, 
though I never tried anything else (no time..).

If u have a bit time to play with things, try smtg else before qMail, and if 
it runs fine and u find it pleasant and failry easy to maintain, stick with 
it... qMail runs fine, but it is a bit complicated... If u find smtg else u 
like, stick with that, as u won't probably ever be a big fan of qMail, even 
though it runs fine :)



ANdrei
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: ""Dag-Erling Smørgrav"" <des at des.no>
To: "Luciano Musacchio" <l0kit0 at exactas.org>
Cc: <freebsd-hardware at freebsd.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2005 11:34 AM
Subject: Re: postfix or qmail?


Luciano Musacchio <l0kit0 at exactas.org> writes:
> I've a simple question, postfix or qmail? :)

Stay away from qmail.  It has a number of serious problems including
non-compliance with Internet standards, poor scalability and poor
bounce processing model (the latter makes it ideal as a spam relay /
amplifier, especially for email-borne viruses)

Do you really want to trust your email to a piece of software that
hasn't been updated in seven years, and is distributed under a license
that explicitly forbids fixing its many flaws?

> Other thing (perhaps, the one that I interest more your opinion), do
> anyone know why MacOS X Server is using postfix instead of qmail? (i
> mean, the latter is far more popular, right?)

I doubt it.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des at des.no

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