I agree. As a security guy, qmail is the best there is... presuming you can layer something into/around it to handle the spam issue. Back when I was a Linux admin, it's what I used for years before shifting to the Qmail-Toaster project which took over a lot of the more annoying back-end management. There's a lot to be said for a lot of little unique user processes working together instead of the monolithic design of Sendmail/Postfix/Exim/etc. That said, the system is only as good as its admins, so when I shifted towards full time security consulting, my qmail boxes all got changed into Postfix systems (and, later, CommunigatePro) because the other admins were lazy^H^H^H^H unable to take the time to learn how to manage Qmail. -Josh On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 3:06 PM, J Cruit <j at packetgod.com> wrote: > I love qmail, I just hate to use it :) As a security guy I love qmail > and all the other fun DJB joints especially DNS as they are such > elegant simple code, really very simple and secure . My problem > overall with qmail is that it adheres to standards in e-mail that no > one else does so you get odd bounces from time to time as people > haven't setup their e-mail to the absolute standard or their MTA is > not setup to the standard. > > If you want absolute security stick with qmail, if you want lots of > functionality with good security go with Postfix, if you want a > headache go with sendmail :) > > --j > > On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 1:38 PM, John Gateley <tclug at jfoo.org> wrote: > >> My company ,E-commerce based business, is running Q-mail and has a spam > >> issue. The server is Redhat and, I am wondering why the hosting provider > >> would choose Qmail over Postfix? From what I can see it looks like Qmail > >> is a perl program and the daemon running is perl. Is this more secure > than > >> Postfix? I am inheriting this problem and would like to use postfix and > >> spam assassin. Apparently there is a bug in the latest version of spam > >> assassin and I have to roll back versions. Please let me know what you > >> think. Thank you, Ron > > > > Qmail is C, not perl, but it has a convenient interface that lets > > you run perl scripts to do spam filtering. > > > > I've been running qmail for 12+ years. It is incredibly secure, but > > I'm not happy with the spam filtering either. You can set up spam > > assassin with qmail if you want. I don't have the time to do it. > > > > And qmail doesn't do IPv6, which will kill it as soon as IPv6 becomes > > popular (which, last time I checked, was scheduled to occur in 2112, > > only 101 short years from now). Does postfix? > > > > John > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20111101/2bcc4903/attachment.html>