RE: Sendmail or Qmail ? ..
martin f krafft wrote:
>
> 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.
>
Complete ACK. I'm also willing to give support, as I use
postfix+mysql+sasl at a couple of clients.
Thomas
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