Re: sendmail vs. qmail?

Jan Kasprzak (kas@informatics.muni.cz)
Sat, 29 May 1999 17:44:15 +0200

Denis Voitenko wrote:
: What are the advantages (disadvantages) of using qmail instead of sendmail?
: I was very surprised to find out that there is an alternative to sendmail.
:
There is a FAQ at www.qmail.org.

I don't want to start a MTA flame war, but in short.

qmail: security, speed, modularity
sendmail: rewriting rules, widespread use (I think)

I run a qmail with ezmlm list server on P90/48M RAM,
>100 000 messages per day, peak rate >1400 messages per minute.

-Yenya

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