Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 10:09:48 -0700 From: Jon Rust <jpr@vcnet.com> To: Tony Wells <awells@journalstar.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail vs qmail ? Message-ID: <v04210122b3bcf93e09c5@[209.239.239.22]> In-Reply-To: <37961EC6.64E1455F@journalstar.com> References: <19990721062819.7683.rocketmail@web1001.mail.yahoo.com> <37961EC6.64E1455F@journalstar.com>
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At 2:25 PM -0500 7/21/99, Tony Wells wrote: >Phillip Greenspun, who wrote "Database backed web sites", seems to like >post.office, although I haven't personally had any experience with it. >Here's a URL with his review: > > http://photo.net/wtr/post-office.html > >Maybe some guru out there knows more about it. I've been using PO for ~ 3 years now, since version 1.9 to be exact. While their product is very stable, and runs as advertised, there are some major shortcomings: - They are very slow to get patches out. The example that I always use is mail relaying. When it first really hit big, PO was caught with it's pants down and I got hit hard. 3 times in one weekend, with something over 10,000 complaints accusing us of being spammers. I immediately contacted software.com about the security hole (relaying that is). They denied it was a problem at first. 6 months later they had a new version that could prevent relaying. 6 Months! While I waited, I had to set-up an internal relay (using qmail) to act as an SMTP firewall. - They are very peculiar about what platforms they support. The ONLY Intel platform they support is NT. All UN*X styles are the major commercial variations that only run on their hardware (ie, sparc/slowaris, hpux/pa, aix/ppc, etc). I even offered to hire the programmers to do a port for them to BSD/OS for free (see below on why BSD/OS). "No." I got desperate then and offered to do the port to Linux, thinking the relatively large market available there would entice them, and I could run it under FreeBSD. "No." Hmmm... does MS pay them to only support NT on x86? Conspiracy theories abound. :-> http://www.software.com/products/software.html - Worse yet, they may kill support for your platform at any time. I am running the BSD/OS version, 3.1.2. They no longer support it in any fashion. They are now at 3.5.1 and climbing. >P.S. >I think it costs money, if that's a factor. Worse yet, it won't run under FreeBSD, or any i386 based UNIX. That's the biggest factor IMHO. I'm building a qmail box right now. The switch will be very painful. I will think long and hard before I make my biz depend on commercial, closed-source software again. jon _____________________________________________________ |Jon Rust | VCNet, Inc |(805) 383-3500| |jpr@vcnet.com | | www.vcnet.com| |---------------------------------------------------| | Failure is not an option | | It comes bundled with your Microsoft product | |___________________________________________________| To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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