On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 08:48, Mahesh De Silva wrote: > Whats are people thoughts? > > I want to setup a e-mail server for > www.xsolutions.co.nz/rwc/ initally it will be for > internal e-mail, via webclient(not sure which either!) > then external, with spam filtering.
If you don't *know* that you want to use qmail already, then *don't* use qmail. Use whatever MTA your system comes with - Debian uses Exim by default, so stick with that. Postfix is fine, too. If you have mail throughput problems at high volumes (i.e. ISP-level volumes), then by all means go off and do a test install of qmail to find out that it will whip through your email quicker than a ferret on a sugar rush. As a side effect, unless you're willing to read the source code to make up for the lack of explanatory documentation, you will end up with a headache caused by the rushing ferret that is DJB's philosophy on how programs should be invoked on Unix - in particular, just how many seemingly-adequate "standard" mechanisms for program control he has rejected, so that he can write his own replacements instead. Which you have to infer from the way he documents things. -jim, 6 months into running only 3 qmail servers, and hating every second of interaction with them.
