On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 06:27:00PM -0600, Les Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > Was Postfix considered and rejected for some reason?
No, Postfix was never rejected. Postfix was not available when e-smith was designed. qmail has served us very well. If you would like to contribute a Postfix port, we'd be very interested - we've had a few "Why not Postfix?" questions, but nobody has ever done the serious work involved to convert. We are certainly interested in Postfix, but there would be significant conversion required, and I believe there are still some things (such as /var/qmail/users/assign) which are easier to do in qmail than postfix. However, I haven't looked in detail at Postfix for a while. > I'm still > running my main office on an older hand-customized RedHat > with Sendmail and the main reason I haven't converted to > e-smith yet is that I don't think qmail can match everything > sendmail is doing and I don't like the idea of delivering separate > copies of messages to each member of a group in a remote office > instead of one copy with multiple recipients. There are swings&roundabouts here. Individual deliveries are the only way to completely track all mails and failures, however batched deliveries can be more bandwidth efficient. Having run qmail for many years, I have found it to be a very minor issue. > Are there any > comparisons or white papers available that show why qmail > was chosen for e-smith? No. The choice over sendmail was easy - search CERT :-) > Also, I'm interested in why a patched > imapd is used with a file format the original author won't support. > Wouldn't Cyrus be a better fit where you don't have to support > traditional mailbox format? (I don't have a real complaint here, > I'm just curious about the reasons behind these choices). The choice/patch was dictated by qmail-pop3d which uses the Maildir format. Once again, we have no objection to changing and would be open to people contributing the required changes. Gordon -- Gordon Rowell [EMAIL PROTECTED] VP Engineering Network Server Solutions Group http://www.e-smith.com Mitel Networks Corporation http://www.mitel.com -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives by mail and http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
