> >>Read Bruce Schneier's comment on these type of contests in his latest
> book...<<
>
> Name of book, please.
"Secrets and Lies" if my memory serves me right.
> >>Well my answer to this is "don't use qmail"<<
>
> So, what do you recommend?
>
I am not recommending anything, choose a solution based on your needs. I
looked at many MTA. Qmail is really nice for a large number of things and is
usually reliable. But as I started to want things that do not fit with its
design assumptions it became really difficult to play with it.
As far as overall code quality and design quality goes, postfix is the best
MTA I have seen so far (IMO). But as with a lot of things this is a matter
of personal preferences and even religion for some.
I currently use both qmail and postfix. Any new system I build uses postfix.
I don't want to start a holy war on these issues as they are not worth the
effort. My main motivations to move to postfix were:
- qmail obscure licensing terms (for my needs)
- postfix is generally more flexible and easier to configure for fancy
things
- postfix performance is on par with qmail
- and a few other reasons that are not worth mentioning
Why I used qmail in the past:
- easier to configure than sendmail
- more reliable than sendmail
- only true alternative to sendmail (at the time)
- good performance
- easy to use for "simple" cases (where "simple" does not mean
simplistic/useless, but means "typical")
Patrick.
