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Re: VMailer/postfix: Am I really the only one ?



On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Amos Shapira wrote:

>|>   this is the 2nd time I ask: Am I the only linux-il member who runs
>|> postfix ?
>Well, not quite linux-il specific but since it came up....

>Can you tell us what are your (or others) experience with it so far?
>What MTA did you switch from (I'm particularly interested in Qmail,
>but any comparision is interesting) and how does it compare to it in
>terms of speed, reliability, security, configurability (virtual hosts,
>virtual users, mail hubbing, relaying, whatever...), convenience?

1. Switched from: Sendmail (8.8.x with massive rewriting stuff, mostly
because some rulesets were unsupported, notably per-mailer recipient and
sender rewriting never worked right).

2. Installation was really easy, but none of the config files suits my
kind of use directly so I had to write one from scratch which took less
than 2 hours and 3 versions to remove bugs (I'll post it later).

3. afait there are 2 or 3 small bugs related to startup and control
commands which each take a very long time (5-10 sec) and sometimes there
is a start and end). I suspect that this has to do with my settings in the
config and no DNS. piped mail is instant (because it is spooled
differently ?). 

All in all it works well so far and I did not lose any mail because of it.
It seems to cope better with dialup host problems (unavailable DNS etc)
than sendmail so far. It can also easily rewrite addresses in both
directions between local net <-> ISP (even several ones). (Look at my
header).

I think that using qmail to move mail fast on an online host combined with
vmailer on local nodes is a good combo. Comments ?

Peter