Re: exim/postfix comparisons

2008-03-28 Thread koffiejunkie
Nate Duehr wrote: Ick. Do you monitor port 25 outbound at your border for spikes in traffic? Seems like in some cases that would be the only way you'd ever see it when dealing with the low-end ultra-clueless hosted customers. No idea, I don't work in that department :) There's monitoring for

Re: exim/postfix comparisons

2008-03-28 Thread Nate Duehr
koffiejunkie wrote: That's odd. Someone who would go through the time/effort to set up qmail didn't secure their box? Weird. Well, it's like this. I work for a hosting company, a lot of our clients use a certain hosting panel whose name I won't mention. This Smells like Plesk. (GRIN)

Re: exim/postfix comparisons

2008-03-28 Thread Paul Johnson
On Friday 28 March 2008 01:00:23 pm Nate Duehr wrote: > koffiejunkie wrote: > > Nate Duehr wrote: > >> Qmail is fast, and can handle an incredible amount of mail thrown at it, > > > > I have heard and read that claim so many times but, after years of > > having to admin qmail servers, have yet to s

Re: exim/postfix comparisons

2008-03-28 Thread Nate Duehr
koffiejunkie wrote: Nate Duehr wrote: Qmail is fast, and can handle an incredible amount of mail thrown at it, I have heard and read that claim so many times but, after years of having to admin qmail servers, have yet to seen it handle huge amounts of mail with even half the grace that Postfix

Re: exim/postfix comparisons

2008-03-28 Thread koffiejunkie
Nate Duehr wrote: Qmail is fast, and can handle an incredible amount of mail thrown at it, I have heard and read that claim so many times but, after years of having to admin qmail servers, have yet to seen it handle huge amounts of mail with even half the grace that Postfix does. I regularly

Re: exim/postfix comparisons

2008-03-28 Thread koffiejunkie
Martin Marcher wrote: PS: if there's a compelling reason to go in the sendmail direction (or any other mta) i'm willing to do that, but I refuse qmail because of licensing issues Depends on why you want know another one. If you make money supporting/fixing mail servers that other people have

Re: exim/postfix comparisons

2008-03-27 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 10:13:37PM +0100, Martin Marcher wrote: > I guess I'll add myself to the sendmail people then. Can't be that bad > and I don't plan to spend vast amounts of time on that, only on a as > needed basis :) > > > If it were me and I only knew postfix, I'd find something else

Re: exim/postfix comparisons

2008-03-27 Thread Martin Marcher
Hello, On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've heard comments from respected frequent posters on this list both > that they use postfix and that debian's decision to have Exim as default > was controversial. > I also lurk on OpenBSD's misc list. OB

Re: exim/postfix comparisons

2008-03-25 Thread Nate Duehr
Kevin Mark wrote: On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 12:13:19PM +0100, Martin Marcher wrote: PS: if there's a compelling reason to go in the sendmail direction (or any other mta) i'm willing to do that, but I refuse qmail because of licensing issues Are you aware that qmail is now 'public domain' as of la

Re: exim/postfix comparisons

2008-03-25 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 12:13:19PM +0100, Martin Marcher wrote: > > PS: if there's a compelling reason to go in the sendmail direction (or > any other mta) i'm willing to do that, but I refuse qmail because of > licensing issues Are you aware that qmail is now 'public domain' as of last year? -K -

Re: exim/postfix comparisons

2008-03-24 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 24 March 2008 06:23:32 am Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > I've only used Exim because it's debian's default. Exim v.3 was quite > simple to set up. Exim v.4 became far more complicated, so much so that > debian made a debconf front-end to configuring it. I still had to make > some tweaks but

Re: exim/postfix comparisons

2008-03-24 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 12:13:19PM +0100, Martin Marcher wrote: > I've been a happy user of postfix for a long time but I generally > consider it a knowledge lag not to know at least one competing product > (which I don't). > > So it's time to change that and since I use debian I figured it can't

exim/postfix comparisons

2008-03-24 Thread Martin Marcher
Hello, I've been a happy user of postfix for a long time but I generally consider it a knowledge lag not to know at least one competing product (which I don't). So it's time to change that and since I use debian I figured it can't be too bad to learn exim, a bit of googling around just brought up