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Subject: Re: qmail or postfix?
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>>>>> "Outback" == Outback Dingo <outbackdingo@gmail.com> writes:

>> |"Postfix" is actively maintained and is constantly being upgraded by
>> |its author. Its mail forum is robust and Postfix has outstanding
>> |documentation; perhaps the best of any software available in the FOSS
>> |world.
>> =============
>> 
>> 
>> It is a good thing I read all the replies before I posted mine, as your
>> reply is almost word-for-word identical to what I was going to say.  :)


Outback> yeah... what he said... !!! :)

+1

:)

No, seriously... I was using sendmail before discovering postfix, and
pretty darn good at m4.  Or is that m4()dnl()? :)

But I've never found postfix without a knob to do something I want it to
do, and most of the knobs are set properly right out of the box. (And
reasonably named too!)

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