On Fri, 11 Dec 1998, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> Postfix (the official name for Vmailer) has had an extensive alpha test
> period which has been mostly closed. There appear to be some serious
> sized sites that have been running with it even in alpha.
I've been running it in production since about May for a fairly large
corporation (~US$5B). The official release is today, it should be on
http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com as well as at
http://www.postfix.org
sometime today.
> I am impressed by Postfix - I think it will be very much the mailer to
> watch in 99. Its underlying security model certainly knocks that of
> sendmail, smail and exim into a cocked hat (qmail is also good although
> there are probably some interesting trade offs between them).
We all gain substantially from having several good choices in mail
systems, and I don't see a reason to get evangelical about any particular
one. While a large number of people will probably jump to whatever's
next, some of us will run multiple mailers, just as we run multiple OS',
or we'll pick one and hopefully help that one evolve.
There really are no totally bad choices in general in the
[exim,postfix,sendmail,smail,qmail] field at the moment, and there are
specific reasons for using each one for some limited set of tasks.
Speed, security, flexability, configurability, development, support, and
ease-of-administration differ pretty widely over the field. That's probably
good, as all of them can use some forward evolution, and having examples
of good implementations in each category can only help.
We can all be happy we're not admining Exchange. :)
Paul
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