postfix or qmail?

[Alex Zbyslaw]

Kirk Strauser wrote:

>My choice is Postfix.  It's still under active development and isn't hampered 
>by bizarre licensing and enormous egos.
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Active development has to be the killer argument.  Who wants to rely on 
software that no-one cares enough about to develop properly?

>Furthermore, Qmail seems to have earned its reputation for security the 
>standard DJB way: by implementing only the easy parts of the standard and 
>complaining loudly about the hard parts ("those are insecure!") until 
>everyone quits asking for them.
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DJB?

>On Saturday 18 June 2005 10:21 am, Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
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>> It has some interesting tricks (an email address like "user" can
>>> automatically have aliases like "user-*) 
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Kirk Strauser wrote:

>In Postfix's main.cf:
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>  recipient_delimiter (default: empty)
>       The  separator  between  user  names and address extensions (user+foo).
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>I set mine to "+" and use it all the time whenever I give out my address 
>(although I subscribed to this mailing list before I migrated to Postfix so 
>you won't see it on my messages here).  For example, my listed address on
>Slashdot is "kirk+slashdot at strauser.com".
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Learn something every day, thanks!  Guess my postfix instinct was 
justified :-)

--Alex