Michael Crute wrote:
I would beg to differ with the statement about security. Qmail is
arguably THE MOST secure mail server
(http://cr.yp.to/qmail/guarantee.html).
It may be 'secure' from that respect, but not from any other. In it's
default settings, it's far too accepting and is a pain to close down.
It uses non-standard locations and configuration, and is popular with
Spammers as they can use it 'bounce' spam onto third parties by send
mail (via the server) to the server with an invalid delivery address and
the destination as the recipient.
It also find it generally flaky when running and a poor performer (I
love it when it decides to restart itself, but fails because the old
process hasn't shutdown quick enough and stops the new process form
running).
That said, I use postfix and love it.
Same here - it's so easy and straight forward to configure, stable (I've
had it running for months without even having to think about it) and
good support for newer technologies (such as RBL, MAPS, SPF and
Greylisting).
qmail doesn't support any of them by standard - to use it, you must
either find a binary that supports it (via binary distributions, or
compile them in yourself).
Plus, IIRC, there's no active development in qmail.
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