[CentOS] Which imapd?

Mon Oct 24 14:40:09 UTC 2005
Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com>

On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 10:21 -0400, Chris Mauritz wrote:
> Johnny Hughes wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 15:52 +0400, jean-sebastien Hubert wrote:
> >[snip]
> >
> >  
> >
> >>The problem is in fact "postfix", there is no mysql support by default
> >>(in RHAS4) , but the rpm is simple to rebuild.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >For the record, there is a postfix in the centosplus repo that has mysql
> >support built in.
> >
> >[snip]
> >  
> >
> 
> 
> And it works well.  I've been using postfix since 1998-ish and haven't 
> even considered going back to sendwhale since.  Postfix is faster (by a 
> rather wide margin) and much easier to maintain.  And now I don't have 
> to speak in tongues (M4) to edit my config files.  8-)
----
Really? Did you have some empirical evidence for this performance
difference or was this a subjective conclusion by someone what
apparently never got the m4 macro concept down?

I use both sendmail and postifx and think that both have their strengths
and weaknesses and never saw m4 as a problem, in fact, I think it is one
of sendmail's greatest strengths. I never noticed a performance
difference either. It's awfully easy to configure and maintain. Postfix
has more granularity of configuration options.

I think that if your notions of sendmail and postfix were widely held,
that few would use sendmail any longer.

Craig


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