[KLUG Members] exim? postfix? why not?

Adam Williams members@kalamazoolinux.org
09 Dec 2002 07:16:15 -0500


>While I happen to run sendmail as a mail server here. I would like to say some 
>good words about qmail. Everyone who I've ever talked to who has run it has
>nothing but good things to say about it.

My impression is that the light of qmail is fading, I haven't seen any
announcements, etc... in awhile.

If I were to investigate an alternative at this point it would probably
be Exim.  Just about every list I'm on has someone who swears by it. 
But it has problems (currently, said to be fixed in next release)
working optimally with Cyrus IMAPd.  It requires some little shim
between it and LMTP.

>Besides, why limit ourselves to products that happen to be on the latest 
>distribution of a well-know free software company from North Carolina?

I've stuck with sendmail, despite annoyances I've had, mostly because of
poor non-mbox delivery technique support in other MDAs and truly
dreadful documentation.  Now with 8.12.x my annoyances have been pretty
my assuaged,  it is a significant improvement over previous versions
(IMHO) and I'd need real motivation to switch at this point.