Re: How to replace sendmail with postfix?

From: Andrew Reilly (andrew-newspost_at_areilly.bpc-users.org)
Date: 09/30/05 

Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 09:37:36 +1000

On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 23:12:38 +0200, Thomas Köllmann wrote:

> jpd <read_the_sig@do.not.spam.it.invalid> writes:
>
>> It [qmail] is in a way an one-trick
>> pony; designed to be very secure, but it's not flexible enough to scale
>> well beyond a certain size and use.
>>
>> In short, it may do nicely for home use and small shops, but I don't believe
>> it'll do for anything bigger and/or badder than that.
>
> FWIW, Germany's biggest freemail provider, GMX¹, runs qmail (as most
> likely some other large setups do). I'm one of their "customers" since
> 6 or 7 years back and thus can say that their service is extremely
> reliable.

Yes. I'm pretty sure that Yahoo is famous for running qmail, and hotmail
was a qmail shop before MS made them switch to Windows. I'm pretty sure
that scalability isn't the problem that jpd makes it out to be.

I've been a happy personal qmail user for a very long time. I might have
chosen postfix when I was trying to get away from sendmail, but it wasn't
there at the time. Politics aside, it's a very nice, very robust, easy to
use system. 

-- 
Andrew

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