also sprach Dale E Martin <dmartin@cliftonlabs.com> [2003.09.04.1447 +0200]:
Has it been covered before on this list? I for one would be
interested in elaboration, if there is something technically
inferior about exim or postfix to qmail or sendmail? Or
politically, I suppose, since much of people's dislike about qmail
has more to due with "political" than technical reasons.
random notes (these are facts and opinions, please don't flame me):
- sendmail and exim are both single setuid binaries. bad.
- postfix is the most performant of all four.
- qmail has an interesting but possibly confusing configuration paradigm
- postfix has the easiest configuration, IMHO.
- qmail has a good integration with one of the fastest mailing list
servers, ezmlm.
- exim is very extensible.
- qmail does not come with anything but basic mail transfer stuff. if
you want things like tls or sasl, you have to patch.
- qmail isn't available as a binary package for Debian.
- qmail support includes being flamed by the author
- postfix and exim support are available here, and if only be me and
dman respectively (note that you have to mention my name in a post
if you want me to see it. i am writing my phd and am thus
filtering messages to not be flooded)
- ralf hildebrandt uses postfix (he's the guru, next to wietse.
can't think of any more.