Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 16:07:54 -0400 (EDT) From: "Gary D. Margiotta" <gary@tbe.net> To: Ron Bickers <rbickers@intercenter.net> Cc: Jack Wenger <info@bentreality.com>, FreeBSD ISP list <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Q-MAIL Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970620152949.9812B-100000@lightning.tbe.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970620130153.14201A-100000@bigboy.intercenter.net>
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We also run Q-Mail rather than sendmail, and will (hopefully) never go back. Q-Mail is a huge improvement in many ways over sendmail. For starters, it is much smaller and more streamlined. Second, the guy who wrote it was a security freak, and didn't release it until he couldn't hack into his own creation (or so the story goes, I really don't know how true that is). Q-Mail runs only a couple processes, and they are idle until they are needed, PLUS there are only a couple of processes who run as root, not the entire program like sendmail. The most important thing about it security wise is that it isn't well known yet, so it hasn't gotten the attention of to many hackers. It took a short while to get used to when we first did it because when we installed it it was still using /Maildir rather tham mbox format so we had to kludge things a bit. Also you have to modify the pop3 side of it a bit, but we are now working on fixing popper to work with it. We started with version .95, but now it is at 1.01, and has been great. Virtual domains are a joke to route mail for, and best of all, it is very non-CPU intensive, so you can run a full fledged mail server on a very minimal machine. IMHO, go with Q-Mail....we have been for about a year now, and couldn't be happier. -Gary Margiotta TBE Internet Services http://www.tbe.net
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