Re: Sendmail vs Exim vs Others
Adam Aube wrote:
My personal preference is qmail. Not sure if it's available in the Debian
archive or not, but you can check out www.qmail.org for more info - look
for the links to netqmail.
Probably not given the nature of its license.
qmail, by default, will not relay AT ALL, and I have found it very easy to
install and setup.
o.O I've had to work with QMail and I have to say that it is one big
giant headache. It was last actively developed in a day and age when SMTP
could be fairly open. To get any decent security requires that you need to
patch in at least 6-7 different patches because the license forbids
redistribution of modified source. Speaking of the source every single person
I've ever heard look at it thinks it is atrociously written and hates working
on it. Fo some reason I believe them because of the atrocious logging that it
does as well as the idiotic ideas which are ingrained into the system.
Compared to my work with Exim QMail is one big giant nightmare. In short,
QMail is the Windows of MTAs. Sure, you can get it to work but doing so is
more trouble than its worth and maintaining it is even worse.
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