[CentOS] Kind of OT: internal imap server

Feizhou feizhou at graffiti.net
Fri Aug 25 07:24:03 UTC 2006


> I guess it comes down to this: if you are handling a ton of mail and 
> mail is a big part of what you do, the rules are different.  You can 
> consider to look past the investment needed to get sendmail and qmail[1] 
> to perform.

or anything else :)

> 
> If you are handling relatively low volumes of mail, say the low tens of 
> thousands a day, and "mail guy" is not a shout you respond to, then I 
> strongly recommend not becoming a white-coated acolyte to these and to 
> make the smaller brain-investment needed to get Postfix working great.

heh, so you don't recommend sendmail for a small site? I had trouble 
imagining using sendmail for anything else!

> 
> -Andy
> 
> [1] qmail's license used to be source distribution only, because that 
> locked out anyone unable to compile it and its dependent packages and 
> "killed the weak".  Mail isn't that hard!  Mortals can get Postfix going!

mail wasn't that hard i would say. Now, putting a mail server on the 
Internet means getting a handle on a whole lot of things.



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