* Tanner Lovelace ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050617 19:33]: > 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. I agree with Tanner on all these points, and I've *almost* switched to Postfix for the same reasons. However, I've been running qmail for 5 or 6 years, and it serves me well. It is somewhat annoying to patch qmail to get some features to work, but there is a very helpful guide that makes it pretty easy: http://www.qmailrocks.org/ Qmail and Postfix are both great MTA's, so as many others have mentioned, you can't go wrong with either. One thing I like about qmail is the "dash alias" feature. If your email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED], qmail gives you a wildcard alias of [EMAIL PROTECTED] So, when I go to Amazon and buy something, I sign up with [EMAIL PROTECTED], etc. Makes it *really* easy to see where your spam is coming from. Anyone know if this is easy to do with Postfix? Jason -- 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
