Craig Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Looking for some real world feedback on using these MTA's, whether one > has an advantage over the other, scales better, etc.
I was an early adopter of qmail, back in '95 or '96, and moved on to postfix when it was finally available in, what, 1998? Both are good systems, both scale well, both are secure. I think it was Jon Carnes who mentioned exim further down in the thread---I've never heard anything bad about it, though I know less about it. Any of them are better that sendmail was the last time I played with it---which was, admittedly, 8 years ago, when qmail allowed us to rescue a sparc 5 that was being used for mailing lists and student email and was getting ground under sendmail's heel every time a list message went out. Not to mention...sendmail.cf. :) That said, I prefer postfix, for the simple reason that I run an anti-spam service with 8 machines, serving more than 300 domains, and the postfix config file on each would be < 20 lines if you took out blank lines and comments, plus a couple of 5-line files defining ldap maps for relay checking and bypassing mx records for final delivery and such. That's a lot of power that's very easy to get to---last time I found myself confronting a strange machine with qmail, it seemed like I had to use find an awful lot to try and figure out what was setup, not that I was particularly successful. Mike -- A steeple full of swallows that could never ring the bell -- Tom Waits -- 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
