From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 29 14:00:14 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 3AF0D16A41C for ; Wed, 29 Jun 2005 14:00:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stormspotter@6Texans.net) Received: from longbow.arroway.com (mymortgageforeclosures.com [66.252.139.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 839D643D53 for ; Wed, 29 Jun 2005 14:00:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stormspotter@6Texans.net) Received: (qmail 3733 invoked by uid 1007); 29 Jun 2005 14:00:12 -0000 Received: from stormspotter@6Texans.net by longbow by uid 1004 with qmail-scanner-1.22-st-qms (clamdscan: 0.81. spamassassin: 3.0.3. Clear:RC:1(216.87.134.162):. Processed in 1.094448 secs); 29 Jun 2005 14:00:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO jacob.6texans.net) (216.87.134.162) by longbow.arroway.com with SMTP; 29 Jun 2005 14:00:11 -0000 Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 09:00:05 -0500 From: Jacob S To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050629090005.00a114d5@jacob.6texans.net> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 14:00:14 -0000 On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 08:48:11 -0400 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'm another person switching to Postfix from Qmail. The final push that made me look at Postfix was a problem I was having in Qmail. One of the patches I needed didn't work properly on my 64bit Sparc system (or it could have been a conflict between two patches, I wasn't totally sure) - causing memory errors and some seemingly random mail loss. And if you've spent any time on the Qmail list you'll notice answers to that kind of problem are usually 1) stop using that patch, qmail works fine and doesn't need patches 2) debug the C and show us which part is causing the problem or 3) stop bugging us and contact the patch author. So I switched to Postfix instead. :-) The one thing I miss is the use of .qmail files or an equivalent with my virtual domains and mysql backend, but there have been several threads on here for ways to do it without the mysql. It's on my list of things to get to eventually... HTH, Jacob