Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 12:49:57 +0300 From: "ANdrei" <lists@hausro.de> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=22Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav=22?= <des@des.no> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: postfix or qmail? Message-ID: <003001c573eb$17ddae40$6400a8c0@maximus> References: <200506180001.58732.l0kit0@exactas.org> <86wtosf4gq.fsf@xps.des.no>
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I don't think that qMail is *that* bad :) it's actually a really good piece of software, has lots of addons u can use with it and it sure is quite fast... we managed 20.000+ internet domains (i suppose about 50.000+ eMail boxes) on a single Pentium around 1GHz with 512MB RAM, and it kept going... that is what I can say... but I agree with most of the people here, qMail is not that easy to maintain, and it has a number of weird things it does... u can however secure it so it doesn't act as a spam relay and u can do many neat things with it, it has no security flaws that u can't fix (fairly easy), and in a few years that I administered qMail-systems in production (3 of these 50.000+ account servers) I never came across a serios bug that was not to be fixed (actually each time it was already done, but we weren't carefull enough before we had the problem :) so, I would say that qMail is quite good. I did not find it easy to work with it though, and I think that there *must* be smtg nicer out there, though I never tried anything else (no time..). If u have a bit time to play with things, try smtg else before qMail, and if it runs fine and u find it pleasant and failry easy to maintain, stick with it... qMail runs fine, but it is a bit complicated... If u find smtg else u like, stick with that, as u won't probably ever be a big fan of qMail, even though it runs fine :) ANdrei --- The problem with our world is stupidity. I'm not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? ----- Original Message ----- From: ""Dag-Erling Smørgrav"" <des@des.no> To: "Luciano Musacchio" <l0kit0@exactas.org> Cc: <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org> Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2005 11:34 AM Subject: Re: postfix or qmail? Luciano Musacchio <l0kit0@exactas.org> writes: > I've a simple question, postfix or qmail? :) Stay away from qmail. It has a number of serious problems including non-compliance with Internet standards, poor scalability and poor bounce processing model (the latter makes it ideal as a spam relay / amplifier, especially for email-borne viruses) Do you really want to trust your email to a piece of software that hasn't been updated in seven years, and is distributed under a license that explicitly forbids fixing its many flaws? > Other thing (perhaps, the one that I interest more your opinion), do > anyone know why MacOS X Server is using postfix instead of qmail? (i > mean, the latter is far more popular, right?) I doubt it. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des@des.no _______________________________________________ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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