From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 29 13:48:21 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1D7016A41C for ; Wed, 29 Jun 2005 13:48:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lists@mawer.org) Received: from mail05.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail05.syd.optusnet.com.au [211.29.132.186]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7809043D55 for ; Wed, 29 Jun 2005 13:48:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lists@mawer.org) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (c211-30-21-228.thorn1.nsw.optusnet.com.au [211.30.21.228]) by mail05.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j5TDmFMe018035; Wed, 29 Jun 2005 23:48:18 +1000 Message-ID: <42C2A69E.503@mawer.org> Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 23:48:14 +1000 From: Antony Mawer User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: MikeM References: <200506290913180129.03B76DAC@sentry.24cl.com> In-Reply-To: <200506290913180129.03B76DAC@sentry.24cl.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: postfix vs. 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: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 13:48:22 -0000 On 29/06/2005 11:13 PM, MikeM wrote: > On 6/29/2005 at 8:48 AM brian.barto@spectrum-health.org wrote: > > |For one who wants to host email accounts for multiple domains, which > is > |better? I've started installing and configuring qmail according to the > |tutorial on qmailrocks.org but i'm wondering if i should stop and > consider > |postfix before pressing on. > ============= > > I started using qmail but eventually switched to Postfix. I found that > qmail required several [conflicting] patches to get the feature level I > wanted. I also did not like the need to move my box towards what djb > thought a *nix box should be set up. Postfix seems to want to just > drop in to a standard environment. But the items that really made the > choice easy for me are that the Postfix mailing list is excellent, and > that Postfix development is still alive. > > I host multiple virtual domains with Postfix (and Courier-IMAP for the > pop3 amd imap support). I'm another former qmail user who converted to Postfix. I got tired of having to use unsupported patches for qmail to do anything because it didn't fit in with djb's view of how the world should work. Postfix requires a greater time investment in terms of the configuration files, but happily integrates into FreeBSD and is actively developed. (Another echo of support for Courier IMAP as well :-) -Antony