Postfix and Mailscanner sitting in a tree k-iss-ing

[Alex Neuman van der Hans]

Call me crazy, but I've always used sendmail and never had any problems. I
like the way milters can be set up to do a lot of things, straightforward
configuration files (once you've googled around for sendmail.mc settings and
such), and 0 problems with MailScanner (unless you count running a rogue
sendmail process from /etc/rc.d/init.d on some stubborn old Red Hat distros
as a problem).

Maybe it's because I've never had to handle more than 10k msgs/day or more
than 1k users, but sendmail just plain works (tm).



-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
Of Richard Bourque
Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 2:12 PM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: Postfix and Mailscanner sitting in a tree k-iss-ing

On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 20:43:06 -0800, avery <schrock at DAYZED.COM> wrote:
>First let me say how impressed I am with Mailscanner. I have been using
>it in a production enviorment for the last 4 weeks. I have only ever
>just played with it in the past.
>
>I am about to start adding more domains to my email server and have
>some concerns. I have read a lot of negativity about Mailscanner and
>postfix being used together in the postfix community and else where. We
>all know this story so I don't need to go any farther. I have searched
>the Mailscanner archives for any opinions from the Mailscanner experts
>within the last 4 months, and have found very little information. I
>have noticed however that the suggested way of setting up Mailscanner
>to work with postfix has changed
>http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/install/postfix.shtml so I
>figured anything before the change was irrelevant. Hence the 4 month
>limitation on the search. My question is this: has the way in which
>Mailscanner is now being setup with postfix changed the integrity of
>things? Has the overall outlook of Mailscanner when being used with
>postfix improved at all in the postfix community?
>
>I personally have not experienced any real serous problems yet. I have
>however had some email sit in the queue for 10+ min. Before getting
>delivered. One other time I needed to restart the Mailscanner service
>because all mail was getting queued up and not getting delivered. After
>restarting the service everything worked. I know this has something to
>do with Mailscanner because before I integrated Mailscanner into this
>server I never had this problem.
>
>Pardon me for asking this question, but it seems that for the most
>part, the Mailscanner community doesn't seem to see a real problem in
>which the way Mailscanner works with postfix. On the other hand the
>Postfix community does. Is this more personal than anything, or is
>there actually some legitimacy behind it all?
>
>Thanks,
>Schrock
>

I used Postfix and MailScanner in the old days for an entire year without
any major problems.  Once or twice the queues slowed down and I had to
restart Postfix and MailScanner, but that was normal under the older
configuration for Postfix.

I switched to Exim on my 3 email servers mainly because I read some of
Wietse Venema's (author of Postfix) opinions of Mailscanner and was really
turned off by his attitude.  Julian gives better support than any commercial
product we use and the author of Exim has no problems with people
interfacing with his mail server so I switched.  Postfix worked great for me
and I never would have switched except because of his comments.  (Anyone
know if Wietse has come down off his pedastal yet?)

BTW, I haven't had a single problem with my mailservers since the switch to
Exim.

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