On 6/17/05, Craig Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Looking for some real world feedback on using these MTA's, whether one > has an advantage over the other, scales better, etc.
I ran qmail on my mail server for about 3-4 years before switching to postfix which I've run now for also about 3-4 years. I would *highly* recommend postfix over qmail. The main reason I moved away from qmail was that it has basically stagnated. The developer, Daniel Bernstein, has completely lost interest in it and to make it do anything that a normal MTA these days should do like SMTP-AUTH, SSL, LDAP integration, etc.. you have to patch it. In addition to that, the patches often conflict with each other. To top all that off, if qmail isn't installed exactly where Mr. Berstein decreed that it should be, it won't run. So, I finally got completely fed up with the trouble of keeping it up to date and having to deal with a programmer that wanted to set policy on my system and chucked it out the window and went with postfix. I've been much happier ever since. Postfix was written by Wietse Venema (sp?) who is still very active with development and even answers questions on the postfix mailing list (politely even! :-) There is a vibrant community working with it and it supports everything you would expect with a modern mailer. It's very easy to setup and is very fast. As I said, I *highly* recommend it. Cheers, Tanner -- Tanner Lovelace clubjuggler at gmail dot com http://wtl.wayfarer.org/ http://www.freeiPods.com/?r=8127171 (fieldless) In fess two roundels in pale, a billet fesswise and an increscent, all sable. -- 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
