-----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) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFE7VJhpdyWzQ5b5ckRApAGAKCndQuOuW+P18vzfZtM1CW1u/7CMwCcDQZw CGjc1KYXu5ccOfxiA0xBq44= =8Y1m -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----