When I was looking at qmail and postfix for an internal mail relay, it seemed to me that qmail was very secure and stable but lacked some modern features (which is why it's stable and secure). There are a number of patches that you can apply to add the desired features, but that involves patching and compiling with third party code, sometimes multiple sets. I am also wary of software that hasn't been patched in several years. If there was a security issue, how long would it take the developers to get on it and fix it? In the end I decided I didn't want to muck with qmail. I installed postfix from an RPM, it already had all the features I needed, it's updated regularly and it works just fine. --Adam On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 1:38 PM, John Gateley <tclug at jfoo.org> wrote: > > My company ,E-commerce based business, is running Q-mail and has a spam > > issue. The server is Redhat and, I am wondering why the hosting provider > > would choose Qmail over Postfix? From what I can see it looks like Qmail > > is a perl program and the daemon running is perl. Is this more secure > than > > Postfix? I am inheriting this problem and would like to use postfix and > > spam assassin. Apparently there is a bug in the latest version of spam > > assassin and I have to roll back versions. Please let me know what you > > think. Thank you, Ron > > Qmail is C, not perl, but it has a convenient interface that lets > you run perl scripts to do spam filtering. > > I've been running qmail for 12+ years. It is incredibly secure, but > I'm not happy with the spam filtering either. You can set up spam > assassin with qmail if you want. I don't have the time to do it. > > And qmail doesn't do IPv6, which will kill it as soon as IPv6 becomes > popular (which, last time I checked, was scheduled to occur in 2112, > only 101 short years from now). Does postfix? > > John > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20111101/91c53c9f/attachment-0001.html>