Re: qmail or postfix?

2011-02-27 Thread Andres Perera
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Re: qmail or postfix?

2011-02-25 Thread Andres Perera
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Re: qmail or postfix?

2011-02-02 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Jarrod == Jarrod Slick jar...@e-sensibility.com writes: Jarrod If you know of any specific problems with postfix that would Jarrod substantiate your claim I encourage you to inform the project's Jarrod maintainers. In fact, given the legacy of other security tools created by the author of

Re: qmail or postfix?

2011-02-02 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Paul Macdonald p...@ifdnrg.com wrote: On 01/02/2011 19:48, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: No, seriously... I was using sendmail before discovering postfix, and pretty darn good at m4.  Or is that m4()dnl()? :) But I've never found postfix without a knob to do

Re: qmail or postfix?

2011-02-02 Thread egoitz
version i tried. that turns off certain maintainers, and it would put me off aswell postfix on the other hand is more in tune with the rest of the system thanks in advance ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: qmail or postfix?

2011-02-02 Thread Mike.
On 2/1/2011 at 8:44 PM Paul Macdonald wrote: |On 01/02/2011 19:48, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: | | No, seriously... I was using sendmail before discovering postfix, and | pretty darn good at m4. Or is that m4()dnl()? :) | | But I've never found postfix without a knob to do something I want it to |

Re: qmail or postfix?

2011-02-02 Thread Frank Shute
On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 03:32:26PM +0100, Alessandro Baggi wrote: Hi list. Who is better, qmail or postfix? thanks in advance I've used both and both have their advocates/supporters. I used qmail for about 10 yrs and picked it when basically the choice was qmail, sendmail and smail. It

Re: qmail or postfix?

2011-02-02 Thread Pedro Timóteo
On 02-02-2011 16:37, Frank Shute wrote: What I'd also say is that Postfix is probably easier to install and configure. Agreed. Postfix is *really* easy and well documented; so much that I've seen people claim that it can't be that good since it's so easy to configure, with great defaults and

Re: qmail or postfix?

2011-02-02 Thread John Levine
When you do decide on your MTA, I'd recommend buying a book which documents it. Oh, definitely. Particularly if you decide on qmail. R's, John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: qmail or postfix?

2011-02-01 Thread Kevin Wilcox
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 09:32, Alessandro Baggi alessandro.ba...@gmail.com wrote: Hi list. Who is better, qmail or postfix? thanks in advance That's a loaded question. Both have advocates, just like vi or emacs, Linux or Nothing, FreeBSD or OpenBSD, OS X or Windows and X Window System or CLI.

Re: qmail or postfix?

2011-02-01 Thread Jerry
On Tue, 01 Feb 2011 15:32:26 +0100 Alessandro Baggi alessandro.ba...@gmail.com articulated: Hi list. Who is better, qmail or postfix? qmail is not actively supported by its developer. It requires numerous patches, etc to bring it up to acceptable servicable standards. Postfix is actively

Re: qmail or postfix?

2011-02-01 Thread John Levine
I like qmail, but I would, having written a book about it. If you want something that works reasonably well out of the box, I'd use Postfix. If you want something you can tweak to do whatever you want, qmail is more of a toolkit. Don't use the version of qmail in ports, it includes way too many

Re: qmail or postfix?

2011-02-01 Thread Mike.
On 2/1/2011 at 10:23 AM Jerry wrote: |On Tue, 01 Feb 2011 15:32:26 +0100 |Alessandro Baggi alessandro.ba...@gmail.com articulated: | | Hi list. Who is better, qmail or postfix? | |qmail is not actively supported by its developer. It requires |numerous patches, etc to bring it up to acceptable

Re: qmail or postfix?

2011-02-01 Thread Outback Dingo
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Mike. the.li...@mgm51.com wrote: On 2/1/2011 at 10:23 AM Jerry wrote: |On Tue, 01 Feb 2011 15:32:26 +0100 |Alessandro Baggi alessandro.ba...@gmail.com articulated: | | Hi list. Who is better, qmail or postfix? | |qmail is not actively supported by its

Re: qmail or postfix?

2011-02-01 Thread Outback Dingo
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Mike. the.li...@mgm51.com wrote: On 2/1/2011 at 10:23 AM Jerry wrote: |On Tue, 01 Feb 2011 15:32:26 +0100 |Alessandro Baggi alessandro.ba...@gmail.com articulated: | | Hi list. Who is better, qmail or postfix? | |qmail is not actively supported by its

Re: qmail or postfix?

2011-02-01 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Outback == Outback Dingo outbackdi...@gmail.com writes: |Postfix is actively maintained and is constantly being upgraded by |its author. Its mail forum is robust and Postfix has outstanding |documentation; perhaps the best of any software available in the FOSS |world. = It

Re: qmail or postfix?

2011-02-01 Thread Paul Macdonald
On 01/02/2011 19:48, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: No, seriously... I was using sendmail before discovering postfix, and pretty darn good at m4. Or is that m4()dnl()? :) But I've never found postfix without a knob to do something I want it to do, and most of the knobs are set properly right out

Re: qmail or postfix?

2011-02-01 Thread Jerry
On Tue, 01 Feb 2011 20:44:24 + Paul Macdonald p...@ifdnrg.com articulated: so for us folks still using sendmail (which works fine for me) what benefits do we get with postfix that'd outweigh the hassles of changing? Without knowing your exact configuration and requirements, answering

Re: qmail or postfix?

2011-02-01 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 08:44:24PM +, Paul Macdonald wrote: On 01/02/2011 19:48, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: No, seriously... I was using sendmail before discovering postfix, and pretty darn good at m4. Or is that m4()dnl()? :) But I've never found postfix without a knob to do something

Re: qmail or postfix?

2011-02-01 Thread Andres Perera
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Alessandro Baggi alessandro.ba...@gmail.com wrote: Hi list. Who is better, qmail or postfix? qmail is more secure... but the design is just as alien to unix as sendmail is for example, the fact that qmail uses custom libc, or at least did so on the version i

Re: qmail or postfix?

2011-02-01 Thread Jarrod Slick
Calling qmail more secure is pretty much just echoing conjecture at this point. Sure, it was designed to be secure (years and years ago) and the original author even held a contest with a monetary reward for anyone who could find a vulnerability -- that said, AFAIK that person no longer maintains

Re: qmail or postfix?

2011-02-01 Thread Andres Perera
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 11:26 PM, Jarrod Slick jar...@e-sensibility.com wrote: Calling qmail more secure is pretty much just echoing conjecture at this point.  Sure, it was designed to be secure (years and years ago) and the original author even held a contest with a monetary reward for anyone