more_qmail_bashing

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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.

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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
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