> > >and i'd recommend postfix. > I run postfix + kavcheck + avcheck (do a google and you'll probably find it). kavcheck's postfix implementation isn't very good, but the avcheck program comes complete with a howto do set it up chroot. Very nice. Combine this with crontab and you can update twice daily for the best results.
Tarjei > >trying hard to stay away from a religious war, i am keeping this as >factual as possible. postfix and qmail don't really have any functional >differences. both can do the same, both have the same features, and both >are very powerful and cool. > >however, they use completely different configuration paradigms, and >while there is little to be said against doing it the qmail-way, postfix >seems more intuitive to the newbie who's always only worried about >configuration files. qmail does not have a configuration file like >postfix, it uses a mixture of directory hierarchies, filenames, and >contents to configure the mail server. once you understood the paradigm, >you can do whatever you want, as said. > >if you aren't used to qmail, then it will have a steeper learning curve >than postfix. i am sure some folks will disagree. the only way to answer >it for yourself is to try them both. > >finally, it has to be mentioned that qmail's author, DJ Bernstein, is an >excellent coder, just like postfix's author Wietse Venema. postfix is >fully open-source and GPL, while qmail has a rather ridiculous >propriertary license, preventing a binary distributions as we have it >with .deb packages. the qmail package maintainer has done a good job >though, and while you need some -dev libraries to install qmail, it's >more or less automatic. > >*but*, and this is something that i probably shouldn't state here, but >which i feel important. it's not about the functionality of the >software, it's about the principle. Wietse, the author of postfix, >advertises it as "competitor" of qmail, not "enemy". DJB, the author of >qmail, on the other hand, chooses to be present on the mailing lists of >"competing" software (like postfix-users or bind9-users) and publicly >*trashes* the "competing" software, constantly telling the users that >his product, qmail or djbdns respectively, doesn't suffer from such >"childish sicknesses," and that instead of using the mailing list to >solve their problems, they should switch to his software and not >experience the problems. for me, that's reason enough not to support >him. you are free to make up your own will though. especially because >even though his software is good, it is not flawless! > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
