We run postfix on several linux boxen on our network. Our main e-mail server is Exchange (from before I arrived) and we have a postfix - mailscanner - clamav - spamassassin (on Mandrake 2005) e-mail gateway that filters all incoming and outgoing messages (about 25k/day - with anywhere between 75-80% rejection rate because of spam and viruses). Postfix sits alongside Exchange and they play well together. We also have two mailman servers and a surgemail server that will host multiple domains as soon as I figure out how to use it. Our linux web servers use postfix to deliver e-mail from forms, logwatch updates etc... I found postfix to be relatively easy and intuitive. As a former Microsoft apostle I started learning Linux in January and now have all of this set up and in production. The documentation on postfix.org is outstanding. My favorite feature is that you can set up recipient restrictions with a few commands that will automatically block the majority of incoming spam. After setting up our gateway my users have experienced a major reduction in the amount of junk mail that they have to wade through. A few of them are convinced that their e-mail is broken because no one is sending them any mail! :)
Seriously though, I don't know anything about QMail. I suppose that makes me rather biased for Postfix. Douglas Ward IT Director NC Methodist Conference -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Craig Duncan Sent: Friday, June 17, 2005 4:52 AM To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list Subject: [TriLUG] Postfix v QMail ? Looking for some real world feedback on using these MTA's, whether one has an advantage over the other, scales better, etc. TIA, C -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
