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Re: Postfix Maintenance?

Subject: Re: Postfix Maintenance?
From: Wietse Venema (wietseporcupine.org)
Date: Mon Jan 03 2000 - 10:27:20 CST

Holger Jahn:
> When I was looking for possible alternatives available in the Free
> Software Market, I found a link to your Postfix (beside qmail and exim,
> which seem also to be good sendmail competitors).

Not to mention that no other mailer is as configurable as sendmail.

> But to take care for the long term aspects of my planned mail software
> change, it's important for me to know who's doing the further
> maintenance for Postfix.

I find that people install Postfix and forget it until something
breaks, which is rare. I'm sure that some people are still running
an alpha release.

If you must stay inside the supported envelope, there have been
official releases roughly each quarter since the first public
release. So expect to replace Postfix once a year or so.

> Is there any group of developers out there (or is the grade of maturity
> that high already to declare postfix' stability at 101%? ;-))

I'll declare a version 1 release when the code is complete enough
(some sites require DSN support; Postfix does no MIME conversions)
and after revision of some internals. That better happen this
year. I want to spend more time on other things.

Right now I'm in editorial control, but expect to release some
control after version 1. I do receive a lot of code, some of it
quite good, and some needs a lot of work, like me having to do the
difficult parts.

> Please let me know if it's certainly a good choice of using Postfix in
> the future.

I would certainly hope so. There's at least one book in the works
(not written by me - just dealing with the software takes enough
time already).

> And, BTW, could you please give me any links to comparisons of the the
> different MTA's (see above)?

All I can offer is mail from satisfied Postfix users...

> To be honest, I'm a little bit confused about how to find the
> "right-sized" software for my purpose (~200 mailusers in 7 virtual
> domains). Since these MTA's are really complex, it's unfortunately not
> as easy as just "rpm -i" the software, play around a little bit with,
> and decide what to use at last.... sad.... snief.... - but that's how
> life looks in the post bottle-messaged-days, I guess.

Postfix virtual domain support is no more complicated than with
other mailers. See:

    http://www.postfix.org/faq.html#virtual_setup
    http://www.postfix.org/virtual.5.html

With 200 users, any mailer would handle the job.

        Wietse

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