Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 14:23:41 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: need some advice on MTA Message-ID: <20030205132341.GW393@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> In-Reply-To: <20030205123705.GA17038@anand.org> References: <3E4020A7.6030807@myrealbox.com> <20030205120228.GU393@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> <20030205123705.GA17038@anand.org>
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# arb@anand.org / 2003-02-05 13:37:05 +0100:
> On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 01:02:29PM +0100, Roman Neuhauser wrote:
> > I run four Postfixes (one of them with Courier-IMAP), and one Qmail
> > with vpopmail.
> >
> > Postfix is IMO easier to install and administer, but doesn't have a
> > point'n'click interface.
> >
> > It also looks like Postfix is a much faster moving target than
> > Qmail, e. g. the virtual address/mailbox support has been evolving
> > quite a lot, and the configuration changed in Postfix-2.
> >
> > I wouldn't recommend Courier; I don't know the SMTP part of the
> > pack, but the IMAP server is pretty admin-hostile in that it doesn't
> > log almost anything at all, so when you run into trouble, you're
> > left to guessing, and hacking the source.
>
> Courier-IMAP is not admin-hostile. You can enable debugging, and it
> will log a lot of information.
I had a PEBKAC case with Courier-IMAP, and had to add a few writes
to get anything useful in /var/log/messages. If the code isn't
there, turning a debugging switch on won't buy you much. :)
Note that this was one particular problem, and one particular piece
of code. It might be different in 95% of Courier FWIW, but that was
not my experience.
> The SMTP server and client part of courier is also nice, robust and
> friendly to other sites, and has many useful features (RBL checking,
> rejecting spam, flexible aliasing, SMTP authentication, SSL support)
> all out of the box.
I didn't say Courier didn't have all that. BTW, I use RBL checks,
virtual domains, static routes (non-MX-based relaying), and whatnot
with Postfix. All out of the box. :)
> And if you install the entire courier suite, you also get a POP
> server, webmail server and mailing list manager, and a webadmin CGI to
> configure it all easily.
Postfix has neither of that, as I said in my previous post ("doesn't
have a point'n'click interface"). It's "only" an MTA. I'm happy with
what it is, and how it does its job. That's all.
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