From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 18 09:48:58 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8B7716A41C for ; Sat, 18 Jun 2005 09:48:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lists@hausro.de) Received: from mail3.netbeat.de (mail3.netbeat.de [193.254.185.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2EAE443D1F for ; Sat, 18 Jun 2005 09:48:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lists@hausro.de) Received: (qmail 29998 invoked from network); 18 Jun 2005 09:48:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO maximus) (85.186.64.88) by mail3.netbeat.de with SMTP; 18 Jun 2005 09:48:55 -0000 Message-ID: <003001c573eb$17ddae40$6400a8c0@maximus> From: "ANdrei" To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=22Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav=22?= References: <200506180001.58732.l0kit0@exactas.org> <86wtosf4gq.fsf@xps.des.no> Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 12:49:57 +0300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2527 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2527 Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: postfix or qmail? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 09:48:58 -0000 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"" To: "Luciano Musacchio" Cc: Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2005 11:34 AM Subject: Re: postfix or qmail? Luciano Musacchio 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"