[TriLUG] sendmail vs. postfix - was Re: stupid sendmail question?

Jeremy Portzer jeremyp at pobox.com
Thu Jun 17 17:36:29 EDT 2004


On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 13:57, David Rasch wrote:

> People keep commenting about the processing steps in sendmail,  yet
> qmail which I've found to be faster then sendmail in tests and
> implementations.  Qmail has an architecture similar to that of postfix.
> Though, I haven't tested with spam filtering, anti-virus, and other filters in
> the middle.  
> 

Qmail is a neat idea, but since it's not Free/Open Source Software, it's
never been a consideration for me.  I'd consider non-Free Speech
software if it's the only alternative, but since sendmail and postfix
are both F/OSS, it's easy to pick one of them.

--Jeremy, weaning himself from pine...

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