From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 23 11:07:11 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60B0016A420 for ; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 11:07:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bv@bilver.wjv.com) Received: from wjv.com (fl-65-40-24-38.sta.embarqhsd.net [65.40.24.38]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFE7313C4AC for ; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 11:07:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bv@bilver.wjv.com) Received: from bilver.wjv.com (localhost.wjv.com [127.0.0.1]) by wjv.com (8.14.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l8NB70Q5063230 for ; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 07:07:00 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bv@bilver.wjv.com) Received: (from bv@localhost) by bilver.wjv.com (8.14.1/8.13.1/Submit) id l8NB6tg4063229 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 07:06:55 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bv) Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 07:06:54 -0400 From: Bill Vermillion To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070923110654.GB63016@wjv.com> References: <20070922204718.0A22616A421@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070922204718.0A22616A421@hub.freebsd.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Organization: W.J.Vermillion / Orlando - Winter Park ReplyTo: bv@wjv.com Subject: Re: migrate from postfix to qmail X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: bv@wjv.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 11:07:11 -0000 freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org said Obscurity in the face of adversity is no dice and while we were trying to figure that out on Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 20:47 he continued with: > Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 14:46:02 +0200 (CEST) > From: Christian Baer > Subject: Re: migrate from postfix to qmail > On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 02:47:09 +0200 Lotfi kecir wrote: > > hello. i'm newbbie in Unix especially in in FreeBSD. Recently > > i have setup one mail server with postfix-dovecot and i would > > like to migrate it to Qmail server. but i didn't know how to > > do it. Someone can give help me? > Why in heaven's name would *anyone* want to do that? I have been > using Postfix for years now and before that I used qmail - when > it was new. qmail sucked *bigtime*! It was slow, picky about > the filesystem it worked on (ReiserFS cause very interresting > results), a license that doesn't deserve the name and one > mistake in the configuration didn't cause an error message but > instead sent incoming mail directly to the happy bit grounds. Don't I recall that when a mail is sent to several people at the same domain that qmail generates separate emails for each person instead of the standard way of sending one email with all addresses to the destination machine and letting that machine distribute the emails. That's just bizarre - unles you own the transport provider and make money on all the data transmitted :-( Bill -- Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com