Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
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On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 12:17:45AM +0800, Feizhou wrote:
Performancewise, I consider (from the tests I ran for Conectiva back in 2000) qmail the second fastest non-commercial MTA. The fastests being exim. Commercial solutions like S/MAIL will beat them all to the ground, and S/MAIL is the basis of Exim just like QMail is the basis for Postfix.
sendmail led to qmail led to postfix
I am sure exim fits somewhere :D
Actually, exim somes from S/Mail :)
From smail's page: Smail-3 was written as a Sendmail replacement for 'normal' people
normal was italized. I remembered there was a connection some where :D
Anyway, I think your solution, even tho it does have many merits, will add unneeded complexity to Alain's setup.
He still needs a virtual backend. Either learn to use someone else's tools or make your own...
If he really opts for a virtual backend, and he doesn't have a problem with "blackbox" solutions, there are some nice ones based on qmail. I would never use it, but some people use and like it.
Well, it probably just that I have not seen one for postfix yet, not that i looked....
qmail is simple, efficient and has a small footprint (...)
I won't argue about efficent and small footprint, specially the later, but simple it isn't.
Simple it is. There is absolutely NOTHING to do after initial installation and configuration. Oh, you meant the setup? Well, some manage with help, others won't get anywhere without.
I have installed qmail twice. Trying to get any HA system in place with it was a nightmare.
HA? No way with any other MTA unless you have some form of centralized delivery information for the mta to a SAN/FC/NFS (ack!)/some form of shared storage.
The most simple (as in straightforward) MTA I've seen so far is postfix. And no, I never use it.
Sorry, I use both and sendmail too and I do not agree. qmail is by far the most simple.
You are entited to your opinion and maybe it really is the most simply for you. It will depend on many factors.
The more simple things are the things that make sense for us. Things that work the say we expect them to work, doing so in a way we find logical.
For me, the most simple MTA is Exim. But I don't repeat that often, cause I know that is not true for most people. For most people I ever talked to, postfix is the most simple one.
But I can symptize with you. I (me, myself) find postfix a pain to configure.
I don't find postfix a pain to configure...besides Devdas and one of my managers, there is no other postfix guy where i work. We do have an exim guy :D. postfix requires more reading to maintain and configure. It gets an unfair advantage by being preinstalled and preconfigured for system account delivery and thereby making it appear simple.
maintenance free and
comes with the best local delivery system available.
<flamewar invitation> Procmail ? Sure it does. But so does every other MTA :) </flamewar>
AH, we have a slight misunderstanding here. procmail don't handle .forward files I believe. procmail is a filtering program. Its competitor/comparison would be maildrop for which I'd vouch for given procmail's cpu hogging properties.
.forward simply does not match .qmail
Oh. .forward has nothing to do with "local delivery". You are correct in comparing procmail with maildrop. Those are the one we can classify as "local delivery system".
how can you say that? .forward provides delivery instructions for locally delivered mails so how come you say that it has nothing to do with "local delivery"?
But yes, if you are comparing ".forward" with ".qmail", you are correct. Myself, I like ".procmailrc" better :) Or .exim_filter, which can be configured, but I really don't recomend. Exim filters are so "powerful" that I tend to consider them more of a security problem than a feature. I'm just happy they are not enabled by default, and even take a little doing to get running.
So exim has its own filtering agent too? I must look at exim one day.
Hmm...probably time to take this offlist if we continue :P