On Tue, 28 Feb 2012, Josh More wrote: > I am a big fan of Qmail. I find it an intuitive and well-designed system. > If you use it, use QmailToaster, and everything will go together really > nice. > > That said, the vast majority of *nix geeks disagree and prefer Postfix > instead. You'll find better documentation and less pain down that route. I /used/ to use qmail. I had it for AGES. I'm talking probably over a decade of basically the same setup, since there's not been a new version of qmail in, well, probably a decade. And I loved qmail because before that I actually had to administer sendmail *shudder*. The problem is that the internet has changed a lot since then. I used to not get any spam. Then I started getting some spam. At the height of the problem I was getting -- I am not even kidding -- THOUSANDS of spam messages every DAY. Thousands. Plugging spam-eradication into qmail was just incredibly hard. I tried for AGES and it never worked right, and all the solutions were basically hacks. Getting SSL/TLS support into it was a big part of that. So eventually I took the plunge and switched over to Postfix. It was actually a lot less painful than I had anticipated. The biggest problem was converting all the .qmail-* to an /etc/aliases, and that was really, REALLY not a big problem. So I have postfix, spamassasin, RBLs and a few other things. There's still spam, probably 100-200 messages a week that actually make it through and are processed, and spamassassin/procmail/alpine catch 99% of that, so ocassionally one of those will actually make it to my inbox. I have Dovecot for imap (actually s/imap). I use Alpine to read mail on my desktop. But since I have secure, authenticated imap I can use whatever mail client I want (which translates to Alpine, K9-Mail on my Androids and rarely Horde/IMP as a fallback). -Yaron --