dude, yahoo uses qmail, nuff said! ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <vchkpw@inter7.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 1:39 PM Subject: Re: [vchkpw] Why does Inter7 opt Qmail?
> I cannot name any company name but I used to work for a large > telecommunications provider. They are world leader for supplying mobile > operators with core network solutions like SMS and WAP. While designing > their MMS solution they had to choose an MTA to handle all the email > involved in MMS. Of all the options, they choose qmail becuase it was > secure, scalable and very reliable. Also their idea of scalable and > reliale is 99.999% uptime and 200 msg/sec. > > That secures qmail as my mail server, always!! > > -Dougal > > > > On Tue, 5 Jul 2005 15:05:22 -0300 > > Bruno Negrão <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> >does your boss have a rationale for his doubts, or are they based > >> >upon a 'gut' feeling? usually doubts arise based upon shortcomings. > >> >what shortcoming does your boss see in qmail (note, small 'q' - it > >> >is not "Qmail"). > >> > >> OK. He wants to know if there is a tendency on the market for some > >> other mailserver. He asks me what mailservers the biggest linux/Unix > >> distributors are using on their products. For example, what's the > >> mailserver shipped with RedHat, Solaris, Mandrake, Debian, etc? I > >> really don't know. I believe all of them are shipped only with > >> Sendmail, but I'm not sure on this actually. > > > > Debian (and Ubuntu - based on Debian) and FreeBSD all use Exim by > > default. I'm not sure about any Linux distros other than Debian. > > > > I've seen a couple ISPs and such before that use sendmail - but that was > > simply a mandate from the higher ups that didn't know anything about > > mail servers. Evidently Sendmail was the only software name they > > recognized, so they decided it needed to be the only one used in their > > company - none of the techs liked it. > > > > Personally, I think sticking with qmail is a pretty good choice. > > > > HTH, > > Jacob > > > > >
