Subject: Re: mail server Date: Sat, Mar 28, 1998 at 10:58:19AM -0800
In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > On Sat, 28 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > May I suggest www.qmail.org. Forget Smail & Sendmail and get a good > > MTA. Check the archives of the qmail list. There are Debian users > > that have qmail running, even tho it is not a debian package. Save > > yourself a LOT of grief! Use qmail! > > If it is grief you are trying to save people, you should be pointing them > to exim. Qmail has its own set of problems. Why? I had tried to use Sendmail/Smail for 2 years and had nothing but grief, 'bat boot', notwithstanding. I then tried Qmail, had it working better then I EVER had the others wotking, and it took 3 days. Qmail does everything I could hope for. I have never tried exim. Is there a pressing reason that I should? here is some data that was posted on the qmail list. Shows what one site found to be the most used MTA's Total 12318 %100.0 ------------------------- Total Sendmail 8639 70.1 unknown 633 5 Qmail 575 4 smap 367 2 PMDF 334 2 Post.Office 223 1 Smail 203 1 Exim 197 1 Microsoft Exchange 180 1 PP 95 0 Netscape Mail Server 93 0 IMail 71 0 ZMailer 64 0 WindowsNT SMTP 64 0 Generic 52 0 MX 38 0 Eudora 37 0 IMS SMTP Receiver 34 0 Groupwise 34 0 SLMail 33 0 Pretend 32 0 Microsoft SMTP 28 0 Mercury 28 0 IBM VM SMTP 27 0 CheckPoint FireWall 23 0 InterLock 20 0 Lotus SMTP MTA Service 19 0 CISCO MultiNet 15 0 Vmailer 15 0 IPAD 14 0 Mail*Link 14 0 TGV MultiNet 14 0 MailSite 13 0 SMTPXD 12 0 AltaVista Mail 11 0 iSMTP 8 0 Apple Internet Mail 8 0 Black Hole 7 0 MDaemon 7 0 iSC 6 0 Intermail 6 0 FirstClass 6 0 Stalker 4 0 Wildcat 3 0 S-Bridge 3 0 GIVEME 3 0 InterScan 3 0 WorldMail 3 0 Is there a reason to use exim over qmail? Is this a Debian Free Software issue or what? No flames intended, I just use the software that does the job for me. I did not see a post by you suggesting exim. Do you have a problem with qmail? Wayne > > George Bonser > Just be thankful that Microsoft does not manufacture pharmaceuticals. > http://www.debian.org > Debian/GNU Linux ... the maintainable operating system. > > > . -- Command, n.: Statement presented by a human and accepted by a computer in such a manner as to make the human feel as if he is in control. _______________________________________________________ Wayne T. Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Weinberg's Second Law: If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization. _______________________________________________________ Wayne T. Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]