[CentOS] Re: Planning Mail Server (with low resources)

[Chris Mauritz]

Les Mikesell wrote:

>On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 10:33, Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
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>>So yes, you are right, Postfix was developed from scratch. But you
>>are wrong when you say qmail was not the basis for postfix.
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>I think a better description of the history would be to say that
>qmail was so bad that Wietse started from scratch to write something
>useful.  And meanwhile, the problems with sendmail that they both
>set out to fix were solved anyway.
>

Heh.  Sendmail really was awful back then (mid-late '90's).  It's gotten 
a lot better, but it is still comparatively slow and resource hungry.

Cheers,