Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 16:21:02 +0100 From: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> To: Luciano Musacchio <l0kit0@exactas.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: postfix or qmail? Message-ID: <42B43BDE.20809@dial.pipex.com> In-Reply-To: <200506181124.09562.l0kit0@exactas.org> References: <200506181124.09562.l0kit0@exactas.org>
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Luciano Musacchio wrote: >hi, >I've a simple question, postfix or qmail? :), I've a fair review for both from >some linux admins, now, I want to know fbsd's community opinion :). The mail >server (now running sendmail) serves ~300 accounts. > > From limited experience, Postfix is much better documented and has a great O'Reilly book. So far, everything I've needed to do, postfix just did. IMHO, the main author has a great track record in the Unix world. qmail documentation is, as far as I can tell, just "Life with Qmail" (google should do it). It has some interesting tricks (an email address like "user" can automatically have aliases like "user-*) that I haven't really explored, but the manual pages are just rubbish. It also uses a Maildir format by default and takes a bit of tweaking to use regular /var/spool/mail. I haven't done anything tricky with it qmail, so take this with a pinch of salt, but I'd buy the O'Reilly book and pick Postfix. --Alex
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