Re: Sendmail vs Exim vs Others

From: Steve Lamb (grey_at_dmiyu.org)
Date: 01/30/04

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    Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 21:40:28 -0800
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    Adam Aube wrote:
    > My personal preference is qmail. Not sure if it's available in the Debian
    > archive or not, but you can check out www.qmail.org for more info - look
    > for the links to netqmail.

         Probably not given the nature of its license.

    > qmail, by default, will not relay AT ALL, and I have found it very easy to
    > install and setup.

         o.O I've had to work with QMail and I have to say that it is one big
    giant headache. It was last actively developed in a day and age when SMTP
    could be fairly open. To get any decent security requires that you need to
    patch in at least 6-7 different patches because the license forbids
    redistribution of modified source. Speaking of the source every single person
    I've ever heard look at it thinks it is atrociously written and hates working
    on it. Fo some reason I believe them because of the atrocious logging that it
    does as well as the idiotic ideas which are ingrained into the system.
    Compared to my work with Exim QMail is one big giant nightmare. In short,
    QMail is the Windows of MTAs. Sure, you can get it to work but doing so is
    more trouble than its worth and maintaining it is even worse. 

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