-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 03:03:39PM +0800, Feizhou wrote:
qmail - (Take with a grain of salt, since I dislike dbj) A pain. It is fast and secure, as long as you use the stock package. But you will need to include several external packages to get even basic functionality, and everything about it (except SMTP protocol itself) is non standard, and the configuration is spread between a lot of files and directories. But it really is fast (slightly faster than exim in some cases, about the same in others).
You could run qmail-smtpd out of xinetd...and run qmail without daemontools and log to syslog. But if you are into djb's stuff you do end up using the rest of his good stuff.
All of which has a definitive slackware flavor.
As you can see, I use Exim so, again, take another grain of salt. My current exim setup is, as far as I know, impossible to reproduce with any other MTA, unless you use several external hacks (multiple instances with different configurations, with port redirection, to name just one).
When you say multiple instances, I assume multiple queues too?
Has to be, unless you want your queues crashing into each other.
But most of the time, when recomending a MTA to others, I say postfix.
:D - qmail not suitable for today's Internet as an MX mta without patching and sendmail a pain to learn/understand if you are not familiar with m4
True, and exim, if not configured correctly, can be very slow.
- -- Rodrigo Barbosa "Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" "Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns)