> 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.