Hello,

My two cents...

QMail strength used to be its modular approach. Meaning that you can use almost 
any other tool to, example, make POP / IMAP available or SPAM filtering.

But in this days postfix, for example, have almost the same approach (maybe 
postfix have some more built-in functions compared to QMail, maybe more 
monolithic approach) and so much more supported, much more availability and 
much more documented and shared used cases around the internet.

That my perception of have changed from qmailtoaster to postfix. And maybe 
quicker first response, related to SMTP connections.

But just that: more modern code, more documentation, more internet information 
/ "how to do" examples. In the end the two make their job well :-)

Greetings,

  Pedro Estevão


-----Original Message-----
From: Angus McIntyre <[email protected]> 
Sent: 23 de fevereiro de 2025 12:14
To: [email protected]
Subject: [qmailtoaster] qmailtoaster - why?

This is a genuine question, and not intended as a provocation: why do
you use qmailtoaster, and why do you choose a qmail-based solution over
a stack based on, say, postfix or another MTA?

I ask because I'm reaching the point where I need to rebuild my own main
server (I backed the wrong horse, building a deployment strategy based
on CentOS 8 that I finally perfected about 3 months before RedHat
brought the axe down). Options include staying with qmailtoaster --
which, after more than 15 years of using it, I know pretty well -- or
looking for a stack based on more actively-maintained software.

So my question is, what do qmail and qmailtoaster offer that
alternatives don't? What are the things that keep you coming back to
qmail/qmailtoaster? I'm particularly interested in hearing the opinions
of people who've tried alternatives.

(I realize that anyone who tried an alternative and liked it better
probably isn't on this list any more ... but that's fine: I want to know
what people here see as the unique strengths of qmail and qmailtoaster)

Thank you in advance, and my apologies if this kind of 'meta' question
isn't appropriate for this list.

Angus

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