From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 18 15:21:05 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 B7BA216A41C for ; Sat, 18 Jun 2005 15:21:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from xfb52@dial.pipex.com) Received: from smtp-out2.blueyonder.co.uk (smtp-out2.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.213.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58DF943D4C for ; Sat, 18 Jun 2005 15:21:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from xfb52@dial.pipex.com) Received: from [82.41.37.55] ([82.41.37.55]) by smtp-out2.blueyonder.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Sat, 18 Jun 2005 16:21:43 +0100 Message-ID: <42B43BDE.20809@dial.pipex.com> Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 16:21:02 +0100 From: Alex Zbyslaw User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-GB; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050530 X-Accept-Language: en, en-us, pl MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Luciano Musacchio References: <200506181124.09562.l0kit0@exactas.org> In-Reply-To: <200506181124.09562.l0kit0@exactas.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 18 Jun 2005 15:21:43.0854 (UTC) FILETIME=[6F32ECE0:01C57419] Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: postfix or 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, 18 Jun 2005 15:21:05 -0000 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