I have to second this statement. I have used various versions of smail and
sendmail in the past, for some very large volume sites, but neither package
comes close to qmail for over-all speed, ease of use and security. While the
original poster points out the annoyances of Maildir, from an OS perspective,
it is a very attractive backing-store model and has shown itself very reliable
over it's lifetime.
Given a choice of the above 3 packages (I can not speak for exim or any other
MTA as my experience if fairly limited with other packages) I would choose
qmail without any hesitation - especially for a large volume site.
John
In previous mail, SecLists spouted...
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> Overall, it is the only mail server I use and I am pretty happy with, no
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> Shawn
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> On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Billy D Walls wrote:
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> > I recently moved from sendmail to qmail, and so far I'm amazed at A> The
> > ease of use of "qmail the easy way 1.51" B> The annoyance of Maildir. My
> > travels across the internet and to various qmails sites tell of vast
> > security promises and the like, and the changelogs for qmail show there
> > isn't much security vunerabilites, even relaying isn't a trouble by default.
> > ... But has anyone had any problems with it anyway?
> >
> > P.S. Yes, I've RTFM and used google. Just looking for any lose ends. ;)
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> > Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com
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