[ale] SMTP Servers

[John Councilman]

Bernstein in famous for being hard headed... That is why Qmail seems
stagnant.  Bernstein believes that his code is perfect.  When installing
qmail, you have to apply a good deal of patches to make it ready for
production (Example: The famous "AOL Patch")


Ezmlm is in the same boat as Qmail, being a Bernstein product, he
believes that it is perfect.
Ezmlm-idx is an offshoot of ezmlm which has some added features, but it
seems as if the page (www.ezmlm.org) has disappeared.

When you deal with Dan Bernstein's products, you learn to deal with his
hard headiness and just apply patches from people.

That is the biggest drawback to using Qmail in my opinion.


John

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-admin at ale.org [mailto:ale-admin at ale.org] On Behalf Of attriel
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 2:35 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: RE: [ale] SMTP Servers


> Currently I am running qmail on a 60,000 user email system with no 
> problems whatsoever.

I use qmail at the office b/c i wanted ezmlm (the major was completely
inadequate :/) (i picked ez b/c ale used it and so i looked into it :)
i didn't know any other names, so it seemed like a good way to at least
find things to look at).  But what I can't figure out is if EZMLM or
QMail are still being developed, or if they're stagnating?

I had to install postfix one afternoon and it only took about 30 minutes
or so to figure out how to configure it (not fully configured, and
mostly I was trying to fix another install, so that time may vary a
lot).  it definitely looked easier to setup than Sendmail.

Sendmail has, typically, provided the most power, but at the expense of
sticking your hands into a blender most of the time :/

--attriel


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