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I feel like everyone has moved on from qmail to postfix; I wonder who is still using qmail. I was a huge qmail fan back in the mid '90s, it was a breath of fre
by linsomniac 7y ago
I feel like everyone has moved on from qmail to postfix; I wonder who is still using qmail. I was a huge qmail fan back in the mid '90s, it was a breath of fresh air in comparison to sendmail. But by the 2000s it was feeling largely abandoned, had a lot of hoops you had to jump through, and Postfix was on the scene and had none of those disadvantages.
The last time I used qmail, it was quite a pain to collect up all the required patches and build, just to make a reliable MTA. I'm thinking things like the TCP DNS patch so you could send e-mail to AOL.
I realize netqmail came along later to try to fix this. I guess I had just assumed that everyone had moved on to postfix like I had.
- knowsmorsecode 7y agoI still run it happily.
- arantius 7y agoTechnically netqmail and with some other distribution (Gentoo) patches added, but I still happily use qmail.