On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 14:25 +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 06:13:58PM -0900, W.D.McKinney wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 08:14 +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > > > migrating to/from qmail is always a PITA. aside from being ancient (and > > > thus > > > not keeping up with current mail practices, especially spammers and > > > viruses), > > > the main problem with qmail is that it is a dead-end trap. it makes no > > > attempt at backwards/forwards- compatibility with other MTAs, so any > > > migration > > > basically involves re-doing everything from scratch. you won't be able to > > > re-use map files (like /etc/aliases) or make the fairly trivial > > > transformations > > > to convert them, e.g., a sendmail mailertable to a postfix transport > > > table. > > > > Wow Craig, > > > > We moved over from the bloated Postfix box to a lean mean qmail install, > > been rock solid since. > > you obviously speak a different language, with strange and bizarre definitions > for common words & phrases like "bloated" and "rock solid". > > trying to interpret here, "bloated" must mean something like "has essential > features", and "rock solid" probably means "reasonably solid if you ignore > really stupid annoyances like the fact that it can't reject a message at the > SMTP level, it *always* accepts and then bounces it". > > > To each his own though and as I always say, pick a horse and learn to > > ride. :-) > > yes, but it's generally better to pick a good horse rather than a > three-legged, > half-blind bad-tempered mule that is well past retirement age. > > craig
Hmm, meaning Hotmail, Yahoo and others run three legged mules ? :-) No worries, this list is about Debian and we really like Debian. Not married to any MTA, just need some. "Bloated" means overweight, non essential and not availble to chuck out the window up here. "Rock Solid" means it's been so long long since we needed to make a change, it's easy to forget how. Cheers, -Dee -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
