Subject: Re: qmail or postfix ??
From: Jim Gribbin (jewelrysupplier@gci.net)
Date: Wed Apr 30 2003 - 13:35:18 AKDT
Good, qmail is one of the projects I plan on putting on a server I'm
setting up at home.
Jim Gribbin
On Wed, 2003-04-30 at 12:48, Jon Reynolds wrote:
> 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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