Marc Zucchelli on 3 Mar 2006 01:47:50 -0000 |
UPDATE: I was able to build a fake mta .deb package and get everything done. > Now that that's said, why qmail? Is there really > something it can do > that other MTA's can't? I ask because about 80% of > my backscatter spam > comes from qmail installations, so I have to admit I > am fairly > prejudiced against it as an MTA choice. I cant stand sendmail. I've never usered exim or postfix, but I chose qmail because of its excellent reputation for security (I dont think there was ever a security hole) and performance. It promises never to loose a single email, I like Maildir better than mbox. Its very easy to configure, and I like the fact that I can tell whats going on in the queue. Not to mention I didnt choose exim because I had a webhosting account on a server that uses exim, there was a spammer on the server, and exim was constantly taking the load on the quad xeon machine over 350. I hear that with qmail the load stays reasonable. Looks like there are some patches for qmail available prevent the backscatter. I will have to look into them, of course I have to be care since I already am applying a patch for smtp-auth! Marc __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
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