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Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:55:00 -0500 From: Ruben I Safir <ruben@wynn.com> CC: svlug@svlug.org qmail is only minimally compliant with the RFC's for mail, and it's developer refuses to fix any flaws in it. I strongly recommend staying away from something like qmail at all costs. === Subject: Re: postfix or qmail From: Thornton Prime <thornton@yoyoweb.com> Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 11:35:50 -0800 (PST) On 1 Dec 2000 dave-mlist@bfnet.com 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 ===