also sprach Antropov Anton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.21.1231 +0100]: > > Also, which mailserver would you recommend? (I have to learn one > > anyway.) > I'd recommend QMail. Why? - Read some mailing lists... And this is commonly > the question of religion.
and i'd recommend postfix. 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! -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTED] die wahrheit ist selten auf seiten der wahrscheinlichkeit. -- heinrich v. kleist
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