MailScanner users using Postfix as their MTA: Question
Pete Russell
pete at ENITECH.COM.AU
Mon Dec 5 21:10:11 GMT 2005
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Working fine for me for many years. Extra reliable and never had any
lost mail or similar.
Simple and reliable - 2 very important qualities for me.
Pete
Drew Marshall wrote:
> On 5 Dec 2005, at 19:19, Jason Williams wrote:
>
>> Greetings everyone!
>>
>>
>>
>> As I am getting ready to setup a new MailScanner server for our
>> company, I have toyed with the idea of using a different MTA;
>> specifically, Postfix. My background with MTA^Òs are in Sendmail,
>> Postfix and Exchange. I have had very good success running MailScanner
>> with Sendmail, but I wanted to switch things up a bit and possibly try
>> Postfix here (keeps things fun and interesting, right?)
>>
>>
>>
>> Anyway, I was hoping to ask current users of Mailscanner with Postfix,
>> if they could give me their feedback of what they like, dislike etc.
>> Are there any known issues or problems? Any performance hits? Lost
>> mail etc.
>>
>
> Personally, I like Postfix. It is sad that Jules and Wietse can't see
> eye to eye as they are similar developers, in so much as they both write
> good, reliable, continuously improving software with a nice simple
> configuration file and documentation, although some what different
> personalities! Performance hits, I haven't noticed any. Lost mail, not
> for a very long time. Can Postfix do things that other MTAs can do, yes
> and without re-building it or in many instances without needing plugins.
> Is it the best/ better than anything else, well that's a question that
> has started intercontinental wars :-)
>
> Go for it. At least you can say you gave it a go!
>
> Drew
>
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