Hello Dmitri, To be fair, you have to look at the design goals of each. qmail's goal was a "fast and secure" SMTP server. It has achieved that goal; development of qmail, as far as the designer is concerned, is done. As delivered, it is very fast, and very secure.
The fact that it does not do anything more than fulfill the basic definition of an SMTP server in this form is outside of the design goal. This is where all the patches come in. And the author does not endorse any of them, because every one of them slows qmail down, and adds potential security problems. And his binary distribution restrictions are in place to enforce that "I do not endorse this" idea. Postfix was intended as a "fast and secure" replacement for sendmail... so it does a lot more than qmail, without third-party patches and "do not distributed patched binary" license restrictions. I, too, started down the qmail path when the Sams Qmail book first shipped. Before I got it to actually work, however, I accidentally let Mandrake install postfix on a machine, and it worked... without intervention on my part! That was a long time ago (postfix 1.0.something), but I never looked back at qmail after that. -- Best regards, Jeff _______________________________________________ DBmail mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail
