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Postfix Archives: Re: Postfix Maintenance?

Re: Postfix Maintenance?

Subject: Re: Postfix Maintenance?
From: Reinhard Hauck (r.hauckt-online.de)
Date: Mon Jan 03 2000 - 14:41:08 CST

Holger Jahn wrote:
>
> After - erratically - sending my message directly to Wietse, I try the
> mailing list this time.
>
> Here we go again:
>
> ### SNIPSNIP ###### SNIPSNIP ###### SNIPSNIP ###
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject: Postfix Maintenance?
> Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2000 16:48:58 +0100
> From: Holger Jahn <Holger.Jahndachser.dpd.de>
> To: wietseporcupine.org, Armin Zahner <armin.zahnerdachser.dpd.de>
>
> Hmmm...., 6 hours behind CET? So, let's say:
>
> Good morning, dear Wietse!
>
> I hope you've had a perfect start into the new year! (1st January
> off-duty? Well, you're a damn lucky man :))
>
> I'm currently very interested in replacing our sendmail-cf-monster with
> an easier to administer MTA.
>
> 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).
>
> 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.
>
> Is there any group of developers out there (or is the grade of maturity
> that high already to declare postfix' stability at 101%? ;-))
>
> Please let me know if it's certainly a good choice of using Postfix in
> the future.
>
> And, BTW, could you please give me any links to comparisons of the the
> different MTA's (see above)?
>
> 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.
>
> Many thanks in advance and best wishes from Munich, Bavaria, which is
> too cold these days (but like a wise man told me, this is simply up to
> the season).
>
> Regards,
>
> Holger Jahn.

One year ago I was in the same situation like you which MTA tu use.
Naturally I have tried sendmail and spent some nights for hacking it and
understanding the 'sendmail-bible' from Costales and Alman. Qmail at the
other hand is surely a powerful mailer but postfix is - in my opinion -
more easy to configure.

After installing postfix in our organisation (300 Users) we have not had
any problem with the mailer. Postfix is doing a good job.

Thanks to Wietse for this good stuff !

Reinhard Hauck

P.S: For Holger Jahn: It's really not spring in Northern Bavaria too
;-) 

-- 
Reinhard Hauck 
<r.hauckt-online.de

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