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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