On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 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.
I'm an amateur (ab)user of both of these MTAs. I currently use qmail on my home server but I opted for using postfix on a server I setup at a local school; both are currently running Redhat 7.3 soon to be migrated to Debian 3R2. I use courier-imap with both and the horde IMP webmail client at the school. If I had to choose between qmail and postfix again, I would opt for postfix, if only because I found postfix to be by far easier to setup and configure. I selected qmail for my first MTA after gaining some familiarity with it hacking an eSmith distribution. After I had decided to migrate my server from eSmith to a standard Redhat distro I also decided to select something other than sendmail for an MTA. Based on web research my shortlist came down to qmail, postfix and exim. Qmail was chosen for the reason stated. At that time I wasn't subscribed to CLUG; If I were I would probably be asking the same question you are :-) I found qmail troublesome to install, to say the least. The various qmail Howtos I read at the time appeared to be out of date with the way DJB's Daemon tools are configured so It took a lot of reading and mucking around to get an operational mail server. Having said that, once it is installed and working it does work very well. The daemon tool package does provide a comprehensive service management facility, but unless you manage all services with this, then you are up for dealing with two different mechanisms. Another area of divergence is logging, instead of using the installed system logger. qmail does its own. By comparison postfix was a breeze to install and configure and at least in a Redhat context blends in better with the service management and logging facilities provided by the distro.
