Re: a couple of postfix questions
On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 08:14 +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
> recipients on the RHS.
>
> migrating to/from qmail is always a PITA. aside from being ancient (and thus
> not keeping up with current mail practices, especially spammers and viruses),
> the main problem with qmail is that it is a dead-end trap. it makes no
> attempt at backwards/forwards- compatibility with other MTAs, so any migration
> basically involves re-doing everything from scratch. you won't be able to
> re-use map files (like /etc/aliases) or make the fairly trivial transformations
> to convert them, e.g., a sendmail mailertable to a postfix transport table.
>
Wow Craig,
We moved over from the bloated Postfix box to a lean mean qmail install,
been rock solid since. To each his own though and as I always say, pick
a horse and learn to ride. :-)
Just stick with Debian though !
-Dee
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