Hudibras wrote: > El vie, 29-06-2007 a las 15:06 +0200, Sandy Drobic escribió: >> Hudibras wrote: >> >>>> What problem are you trying to solve? If the question is "can Postfix do >>>> that?" the answer is "yes, it can, and a lot more, too". >>>> If the question is "Which MTA should I use?" The answer is "Use the one >>>> you are able to administer and debug.". >>> I do prefer, no doubt about it, qmail. >>> Check www.shupp.org, and install in a twinkle the best mail server >>> (imho, of course). >>> And after, enjoy with a master piece of software. >> What features were the deciding factor for you to choose Qmail? I don't >> have any experience with Qmail myself, I chose Postfix because it has a >> great support community, a very active development and the documentation >> is extensive and accurate. Features like DSN and Policy Server/Milters >> also became very important. > > Do as you like. It's only my advice. > > But after many years testing nearly every mail server, I don't change > qmail for anything in this world. It's simply a master piece of > software. People who knows me also know my opinion about qmail, and I > think this way from 1998-1999, when I tested the first time.
It's great that you like Qmail, but this doesn't give my any information to compare it to Postfix. Ideally it would be great if someone had worked with both programs and could compare how much effort it took to reach the same result. The first (beta) version of Postfix was released 1999, the first stable release 1.0 appeared 2001, so I guess you didn't test Postfix at that time. > All features you like in a mail server, qmail does have them. So, why > don't you try and if not of your taste, install any other. > I can assure you my qmail is really the same I've got from 2002. And I > sleep peacefully while qmail works. That's not good, I know, but if you > don't want be ever watching a mail server, install qmail and forget > yourself. I have heard the same being said about Postfix. I still wonder how anyone can just install a mailserver and then forget about it. I am always finetuning the configuration to adapt to new spammer tricks. agreed, it would probably work without finetuning, but the rate of rejected spam would probably drop a lot. A big German ISP tested this, they simply stopped finetuning their configuration and noticed a considerable drop in their rejection rate. >> If I had to choose another MTA other than Postfix I would probably switch >> to Exim. > > Postfix and Exim are two great mail servers, but I still do prefer > qmail, because (and it's only my opinion) is much better in most cases. > qmail version is the same from 1998, and it does not need any more; but > there are many people around helping and making "add-ons", making it > more powerful and never, never, never has a security hole or anything > like these. > However, sendmail or postfix really have holes... or is that not true? At least for Postfix it is not true. Sendmail had some problems with security some years ago. In the last years I they tightened their code a lot. Though I do remember that Sendmail had a remote exploitable bug last year. One good hint how secure Postfix is: Borderware has chosen Postfix as the MTA of their Firewall. > So decide and have a try qmail, and you'll not be disappointed. So far, this does not yet give me enough encouragement to invest the many month of work to dig into Qmail as I did with Postfix. Before I change I have to know if the annoyances in Postfix are worth dealing with the annoyances of another MTA. Every piece of software has some drawbacks, the question is rather if I am willing to live with it or if I can circumvent the annoyance. Since I know Postfix quite well, so I know how to work around the annoyances of Postfix, but that is not the case with Qmail (or Exim or Sendmail). Recipient validation for example is very important, how and at what stage of the smtp dialogue is it done in Qmail? I would probably have to spend quite some hours to find the anwser. Time is expensive, I only have a limited supply of it. (^-^) -- Sandy List replies only please! Please address PMs to: news-reply2 (@) japantest (.) homelinux (.) com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
