On Monday 02 December 2002 08:38, Paul Hoffman wrote:
> Another note on the Postfix-vs-qmail discussion. Qmail has *lots* of 
> user support in the way of active mailing lists, a very readable book 
> (and at least one other on the way), and a few support sites. Postfix 
> doesn't seem to have much support at all. I like support, but I don't 
> care for djb's restrictions that prevent a single, easy qmail 
> distribution.
> 
> And, yes, I'm still trying to decide between the two of them as well...
> 
> 

If you're looking to be able to recover the majority of your mqueue from a 
hosed system, or eventually will attempt to seamlessly move your mail system 
over to a new machine (for example), forget about qmail. It stores its queue 
(or it used to--has it been fixed yet?) in inode-related filenames which 
won't work if you try to copy them over to the new machine. Qmail is a 
nightmare in a large mail setting with backup MXen and a line of failover 
machines. Just a large, scary nightmare.

postfix--don't know anything about it.

But what's the problem with sendmail again? When was the last bug found in it, 
anyway?