From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 22 13:51:39 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4D7B16A417 for ; Sat, 22 Sep 2007 13:51:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from news@nermal.rz1.convenimus.net) Received: from mx4.netclusive.de (mx4.netclusive.de [89.110.132.136]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9123313C447 for ; Sat, 22 Sep 2007 13:51:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from news@nermal.rz1.convenimus.net) Received: from nermal.rz1.convenimus.net (Fdd36.f.ppp-pool.de [195.4.221.54]) (Authenticated sender: ncf1534p2) by mx4.netclusive.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C23F5E0132 for ; Sat, 22 Sep 2007 15:51:38 +0200 (CEST) Received: by nermal.rz1.convenimus.net (Postfix, from userid 8) id 3BFCB15219; Sat, 22 Sep 2007 15:48:55 +0200 (CEST) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Path: not-for-mail From: Christian Baer Newsgroups: gmane.os.freebsd.questions Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 15:48:55 +0200 (CEST) Organization: Convenimus Projekt Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <48ce8d530709211747s615bc16by5766441066f19237@mail.gmail.com> <46F476E2.7080505@mikestammer.com> <48ce8d530709212129i3177480byd2ef4a66581b2f5b@mail.gmail.com> <7CDF3AD1-DE13-46F6-A84F-B26FA3F97032@dragffy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sunny.rz1.convenimus.net X-Trace: nermal.rz1.convenimus.net 1190468935 77568 192.168.100.5 (22 Sep 2007 13:48:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@convenimus.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 13:48:55 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1 (FreeBSD/6.2-RELEASE-p7 (sparc64)) Subject: Re: migrate from postfix to qmail X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 13:51:39 -0000 On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 11:13:58 +0100 Gabriel Dragffy wrote: > Yeah right. I don't have hands-on experience with any MTA other than > Postfix, but I never read a good thing about qmail. Thing is, I work > for a design company - we have 3 VPSs two using Plesk and another on > extend, I noticed that behind the scenes it is Qmail for all of them. > How come it is used by these control panels when it is so poor? Just > a small whine from me :) That question is pretty easy to answer: The qmail-configuration can be read an evaluated *without* a parcer. This makes it easy to read and write the configuration and it also reduces the risk of errors. If you created a configuration tool for an MTA you'd be looking for something that will interact well with you tool and probably you wouldn't look to carefully how well that program does its job as an MTA. Regards Chris