[PLUG] crazy postfix problem - fixed

Elliott Mitchell ehem at m5p.com
Tue Jul 10 06:32:14 UTC 2007


>From: Keith Lofstrom <keithl at kl-ic.com>
> Thanks, Rich, for letting me know that Qmail is complex also.  Perhaps
> all these tools need a high level configurator front end.  That might
> make a good business for somebody. designing Postfix config files.

> Postfix sucks less than Sendmail, granted, and sucks less than Qmail
> (I'll take your word on that), but it still sucks.   Perhaps with testing
> and a usable front end, the suckiness could be buried out of sight.
> Configured properly (requiring much experience and knowledge) the
> Postfix engine does a fine job.  

I imagine there are several helper scripts for this task. Due to Qmail's
license requiring distribution *as source*, Debian ships a package
builder that puts a configuration helper into the resultant package.
Wasn't difficult to deal with with that kind of help. Not trivial though,
and I won't claim to have everything perfectly setup at this point.


>From: "Rich Burroughs" <rich at paranoid.org>
> I'm not very dogmatic about tools, find the one that does the job best for
> you. That might mean giving Qmail a test drive too. You mentioned Exim in
> one of your earlier posts, you might actually want to check it out. I've
> never used it, but it seems very reliable and easy to configure.

I wrote off Exim around 2001 or so. At the time Debian was using v3, and
I they were having to put out many more security alerts for Exim than
Sendmail! Perhaps Sendmail was worse in 1995, but Exim didn't have any
excuses post-2000. Perhaps Exim v4 is better, then again, Sendmail has
also had time to improve security.

I guess I've got to place Qmail as best if you can manage to configure
it. Postfix and Sendmail as pretty well even, and Exim in last place.


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