On Wed, 2002-05-01 at 21:02, Gary wrote: > On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 10:34:02PM -0500 or thereabouts, Jim Hale wrote: > > So it would be better to go ahead and use Sendmail instead of Postfix? > > Unlike Ed, I like Postfix. I switched over about 2 years ago. It is > considered very secure and fast, easy to manage, I use it on my sites. I > must say in all candor, I have been looking at Qmail lately, as it runs > with ezmlm mail list mgr, which is excellent. Qmail also is very secure > and fast, capable of spewing out over a millon pieces of mail a day
I think what I dislike about Qmail is that its reputation has grown, while the software has not. Qmail's design was really outstanding several years ago, but now it's pretty standard among MTA's on UNIX. Qmail is fairly good if the only thing you need is a fast mail relay, but it has never developed beyond that. If you need any interesting features (SSL, authenticated SMTP, LDAP), you'll have to apply unsupported patches to the software, and many of the good ones conflict with each other. If you're already running Postfix, there's no good reason I can think of to switch to Qmail :)
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