"best" mailserver

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massheep · Post by **massheep** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 8:18 am

which one would you choose and why?

racoontje · Post by **racoontje** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 8:43 am

qmail. Fast, light, I like the overall look and feel, plus, it works.

emmorf · Post by **emmorf** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 1:31 am

postfix is the mailserver of choice. It is easily configurable and very secure out of the box.

deribin · Post by **deribin** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 2:36 am

You can play with number of mail servers, but finally you will use sendmail.

rshadow · Post by **rshadow** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 3:58 am

just wish to cast my vote for qmail.. like mentioned above "It works". Could be I'm just a retard, but I've followed every postfix guide I found.. none of them work... qmail simply works.. very little setup involved.. and very secure..

MasquedAvenger · Post by **MasquedAvenger** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 4:51 am

I'll have to cast my vote now for postfix

James

bunder · Post by **bunder** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 5:38 am

postfix -> amavis/spamassassin -> postfix -> courier-imap.

Shopro · Post by **Shopro** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 5:44 am

qmail - vpopmail - courier-imap - spamassassin/clamd + qmailadmin, can something be more better?

vdboor · Post by **vdboor** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 10:21 am

Here is another vote for Postfix

I found it easy to work. Their FAQ is very helpfull BTW. You can have a Postfix server running in no time.

QMail existed before Postfix, meaning Postfix has learned from QMail's mistakes. See here for more info. (one of the first hits in 'google groups' looking for 'postfix qmail')

jwj · Post by **jwj** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 10:48 am

Shopro wrote:qmail - vpopmail - courier-imap - spamassassin/clamd + qmailadmin, can something be more better?

Thats it!

snerkel · Post by **snerkel** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 12:40 pm

qmail - vpopmail - courier-imap - spamassassin/clamd + qmailadmin, can something be more better?

i totally agree! exactly what i run!

to get the best qmail server around check www.qmailroks.org

massheep · Post by **massheep** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 2:29 pm

thank you all for your feedbacks.

i made up my mind and chose qmail. it really seems to be small, compact and stable. but i can't use it at this time:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php? ... 89#2003289

baak6 · Post by **baak6** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 11:12 pm

Qmails license is really ugly...and Postfix's isn't THAT great either but Sendmail's is fine, but my vote is for Postfix in case you decide to change your mind..

MasquedAvenger · Post by **MasquedAvenger** » Sat Jan 22, 2005 12:30 am

beugh wrote:

postfix -> amavis/spamassassin -> postfix -> courier-imap.

Almost identical to my setup, except that I also use amavisd to filter my mail through ClamAV (anti-virus) and then use procmail to do the actual delivery.

James

georwell · Post by **georwell** » Sun Jan 23, 2005 12:23 am

sendmail --> MailScanner --> cyrus-imap. Works for thousands of users.

acasto · Post by **acasto** » Sun Jan 23, 2005 1:51 am

sendmail --> clamav --> spamassassin --> qpopper

Works fine once you get used to sendmails m4 macro deal. My biggest problem is it'll work for the longest time, then when there is a problem, I'll forget the macro commend to process the changes.

- Adam

jonnevers · Post by **jonnevers** » Sun Jan 23, 2005 2:39 am

last time I tried using sendmail it couldn't support .maildir mailboxes... I've had no problems with postfix, its reliability and security are top notch.

odioworks_com · Post by **odioworks_com** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 10:53 pm

Postfix is nice...

Here's a great howto by beowulf that goes over setting up a complete mail server system:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=56633

waverider202 · Post by **waverider202** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 8:56 pm

A lot of people ask this question on this forum. By the looks of the responces....you can safetly say, that the best mail server is NOT exchange. I hope I've helped

dashnu · Post by **dashnu** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 9:52 pm

postfix - cyrus-imap - sasl - ldap - amavis - clamav -OpenXchange

Bojan · Post by **Bojan** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 12:14 am

For now my vote would definitely go to Qmail. Hmm, maybe that is just because I have no experience with Postfix yet. When I was at the point of making a decision I chose Qmail because Postfix seemed a bit fat.
Is there any unbiased comparison of Qmail / Postfix performance available on the web; or ... can anyone say something about how Postfix performs on slow pentium class PCs.

skellr · Post by **skellr** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 6:00 am

massheep wrote:which one would you choose and why?

What? no poll?

Postfix - no pun intended.

pteppic · Post by **pteppic** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 9:47 am

It seems that more people are voting postfix than anything else.
Can someone give a sensible comparison between postfix and sendmail feature wise, I currently have

sendmail-sasl>procmail>spamassassin>procmail>dovecot-imaps

Please don't mention ease of setup, because what I have is allready working (ie. no setup involved)

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