First I'd like to state that I haven't tried qmail. I just went through this decision
myself, and must say it's a close call. I finally decided that
1. it seems more people use postfix
2. I heard from at least 2 places that the qmail people do not stick to all the RFCs,
if they feel the need to change something(though admittedly, I cannot confirm nor deny
this. It might actually be a /good/ thing that they don't, but we've moving from NT to
Linux so I thought I'd stick with the RFCs)
3. I needed to use the VirtualHosting support patch for the GNU pop3 daemon, which is
known to work with postfix.
4. After reading docs and websites, I decided that I liked the attitude of the postfix
people better (That's a personal opinion, I don't expect others to agree nor do I
really need them too :-) ).
But most importantly, postfix is a complete drop-in replacement for sendmail. I.e. it
does not break things that require sendmail. It has binaries and confs with the same
names, and even takes many of the same commandline options. qmail on the otherhand has
it's own names and things. This was important to my company because otherwise we would
have had to modify out php pages that use sendmail (and we do have a few of those :-).
Our php programmer found a wrapper of some sort for Qmail/Php, but we decided the
benifits of postfix outweighed qmail.
For what it's worth....
JW
At 09:13 PM 11/30/2000 -0600, you wrote:
>Chris Cho wrote:
>>I was just wondering, which of the two email servers do people enjoy? I've
>>read a bit on qmail and it looks pretty good, but I'm not sure how people
>>respond to postfix? This is to run about 3,000 or so email accounts. BTW,
>>this is my first email server I'm running, so I'm hoping either of the two
>>aren't as complex as Sendmail . . . Thanks ahead of time.
>
>I would suggest qmail, but then it's the only one I've used. However, a bit
>of warning. The qmail mailing list is a rather harsh list. If you ask a
>question that certain members think is easy or something you should
>understand from the documentation, they will flame you rather liberally.
>
>Just thought you would like a little forewarning.
>
>Jamin W. Collins
>
>
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