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This may be somewhat off topic for this list, for which I apologize in
advance.
Far as I can tell (sorry if I missed some of the thread), this
discussion has revolved around ease of configuration. I'd like to
hear a bit about how these packages perform in enterprise
environments. Which scales better, qmail or postfix? Which performs
better under heavy load? Any experiences on other platforms (Solaris
in particular)?
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David Talkington
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Thornton Prime wrote:
>On 1 Dec 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Most qmail users, including myself, see this as a feature for qmail:
>> the sendmail way is the hard way. Users new to an MTA (basically
>> anyone that has to ask which one they should use) will have a much
>> easier learning curve with qmail configs than with sendmail configs.
>
>postfix is command line compatible with sendmail, not config file
>compatible. The goal is to make sure the countless scripts out there that
>rely on '/usr/lib/sendmail' still work with postfix without the burden of
>sendmail configs.
>
>I personally use postfix, and find it safe, efficient, well documented and
>well supported. It almost always does exactly what I want with no config
>changes. When I do make config changes, it is usually to just one or two
>lines in the well documented and very plain configuration file.
>
>I tried qmail before I tried postfix and didn't like it. It was a while
>ago, but if I remember I decided that I wasn't ready for maildir and qmail
>required maildir. I also was addicted to procmail, and I didn't think
>qmail supported procmail. I don't know if they support mbox and
>procmail now (or if I just couldn't figure out how to set them up back
>then), but now I've transitioned to using maildir with postfix (no
>procmail) and am happy, but what the hell, maybe I'll give qmail another
>try.
>
>So my recommendation to the original questioner is this ... try both qmail
>and postfix. See which one suits your fancy. Use it. Just please don't use
>sendmail <grin>.
>
>Frankly I don't understand why RedHat installs sendmail by default when
>postfix is probably far cheaper for them to support.
>
>thornton
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