Just to illustrate my point further:
On Mon, 1 Oct 2001 at 16:39, louie miranda wrote:
> qmail :)
On Mon, 1 Oct 2001 at 16:45, Reynald I. Ngo wrote:
> www.postfix.org for me.
See what such "a vs b" questions gets? Traffic that simply means nothing.
Why qmail? Why Postfix? If I were a newbie I'd say one three letter word.
"Duh?"
And since I'm a not-so-newbie anymore, and since I've tried both, I'd say:
"Duh!"
Instead perhaps we can recommend comparisons, or maybe refer them to the
various sites so they can read more and find out on their own the answer
to the questino "why {postfix,qmail,exim}".
The Postfix homepage is (as Reynald earlier posted),
<http://www.postfix.org/>. Postfix is written and maintained by Wietse
Venema, AFAIK also author of tcpwrappers.
The QMail homepage is <http://www.qmail.org/>. QMail is written and
maintained by Dan Bernstein, proponent of (among others) djbdns (an
alternative to BIND) and tcpdaemon, and arch-rival of Wietse Venema.
The Exim homepage is <http://www.exim.org/>. I honestly don't know much
about this except that (1) it comes with Debian by default, (2) Eric
Pareja of UP Manila uses it, and (3) it also supports Maildirs (as do the
first two).
Wietse and Dan can go on and on, and have actually done so, about each
others points of view on the software they maintain and the philosophies
they adhere by.
At the end of the day we have at least two (as I said I don't know much
about Exim) really good MTAs. So I believe now it's more a matter about
"what you prefer" and not "what is best". If you have the luxury to do so
I recommend you give each a shot. That's how I found out I preferred
Postfix to QMail. But QMail is great, too, and dek (our janitor ;> ) can
attest to that.
--> Jijo
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