Rodrigo Barbosa 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. > > > Actually, postfix was written from scratch by Wietse Venema (developer of TCP Wrappers) and has nothing at all to do with Qmail. As a matter of fact, Dan and Wietse don't seem to enjoy good relations (Dan is a pain in the ass to deal with if you ask me). I wouldn't recommend qmail to anyone, and certainly not a beginner. Postfix comes with CentOS and will be a lot easier to integrate and maintain. Cheers,