Gabriel Ricard writes:
Ok, this may be a totally crazy idea that's completely unnecessary, but here
it goes:
I want to have a high performance mail server that's easy to configure for
use in our system at work.
Now, thinking about it,
that's exactly what AOLServer does for HTTP traffic, so why can't I use
AOLServer for my SMTP traffic as well?
For a dismal experience, check out all the hatred and flames that occur on
the MTA (qmail, sendmail, postfix, ...) developer lists.
Writing an MTA is very hard. You have to make it reliable, secure, easy to
configure, and fast. Sendmail has been around for something like 20 years
now? How many thousands of man years? Qmail has been around since 95-97
and benefited both from having been written by a coder-savant, but also from
being able to learn from sendmail's failures. And postfix benefited by
looking at qmail and sendmail.
My suggestion is to make AOLserver more of a partner with either qmail or
postfix than it is right now. Let the MTA developers do what they do
best....
Jerry
Jerry
