Subject: Re: qmail or postfix ??
From: Jon Reynolds (jonr@destar.net)
Date: Wed Apr 30 2003 - 12:48:37 AKDT
On Wed, 2003-04-30 at 11:35, Christopher E. Brown wrote:
>
> On Wed, 30 Apr 2003 jwadell@gci.net wrote:
>
> >
> > Add me to the Postfix crowd! I have set up several, no pain. I will accept that qmail may be the better rpoduct for large serves with a bunch of users, but... Postfix is so easy!
> > Jim
>
>
> You need accept nothing of the sort. Postfix and Qmail are both able
> to handle a truly massive amount of mail/mail accounts/etc.
>
> The advantage of one system over another (benchmark wise) has alot
> more to do with how good the mail admin is, not any large difference
> in performance under load. A high volume system beats the hell out of
> the drives, making drive selection, spindle allocation, and filesystem
> layout/params of major import.
>
>
> --
> I route, therefore you are.
>
Am I the only qmail user out there?
Qmail and Postfix are both good MTA's, what you choose is up to you. I
prefer qmail because for me it was simple to learn, fast, efficient and
easy to administer.
To answer Damiens question on why use virtual users? Virtual users
don't have a real account on the box so they can't log in via ssh,
telnet, ftp, etc. Also, I can host many domains off of one box and not
have to admin those domains. I can delegate that to the admin of the
domain and they have a nice web interface to change all settings for
their email "server". Another nice feature is that when I built a new
server for our email I had to simply stop qmail and move 1 directory and
1 file to the new server and then restart qmail on the new server. The
switch took 5 minutes and it was done.
Jon
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