[TriLUG] Postfix v QMail ?

[Jason White]

* Tanner Lovelace (clubjuggler at gmail.com) [050621 08:52]:
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> I can put any more addresses that I want to reject in access-inbound
> and it will work just as you expect.

Cool.

> insurance at wayfarer.org          REJECT Wayfarer.org doesn't deal with
> insurance.  Check your address.

> Note on the last one you can give a reason for the rejection that will be shown
> when postfix rejects the e-mail.  You can also use DISCARD instead of REJECT
> but that's not recommended because it silently discards e-mail without any
> notice to anyone.  REJECT at least lets the sending MTA know there's an
> error.

Nifty.

> That's actually another thing I prefer about postfix over qmail.  When qmail
> wants to reject an e-mail it accepts the e-mail and then generates a rejection
> bounce.  That is incorrect in every sense of how things should be.  Postfix,
> on the other hand, can reject as the mail is coming in, before accepting the
> e-mail.  This reduces the number of spurious bounces (because if an e-mail
> is forged, qmail will bounce it back to the forged address while postfix, by
> rejecting before receiving, will not).

Ok, ok, I'm hearing some good arguments in Postfix's favor.  Since it
appears that I can keep my qmail aliases, I'm getting more encouraged
to make the Postfix switch.  It does appear to have much more momentum
these days.  Thanks for all the details, Tanner.

Jason