From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 22 13:11:55 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 821E016A420 for ; Sat, 22 Sep 2007 13:11:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from news@nermal.rz1.convenimus.net) Received: from mx3.netclusive.de (mx3.netclusive.de [89.110.132.133]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 424CF13C48E for ; Sat, 22 Sep 2007 13:11:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from news@nermal.rz1.convenimus.net) Received: from nermal.rz1.convenimus.net (Fdd36.f.ppp-pool.de [195.4.221.54]) (Authenticated sender: ncf1534p2) by mx3.netclusive.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id C569D6049DC for ; Sat, 22 Sep 2007 14:48:44 +0200 (CEST) Received: by nermal.rz1.convenimus.net (Postfix, from userid 8) id DF64815219; Sat, 22 Sep 2007 14:46:02 +0200 (CEST) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Path: not-for-mail From: Christian Baer Newsgroups: gmane.os.freebsd.questions Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 14:46:02 +0200 (CEST) Organization: Convenimus Projekt Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <48ce8d530709211747s615bc16by5766441066f19237@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sunny.rz1.convenimus.net X-Trace: nermal.rz1.convenimus.net 1190465162 77568 192.168.100.5 (22 Sep 2007 12:46:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@convenimus.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 12:46:02 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1 (FreeBSD/6.2-RELEASE-p7 (sparc64)) Subject: Re: migrate from postfix to qmail X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 13:11:55 -0000 On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 02:47:09 +0200 Lotfi kecir wrote: > hello. i'm newbbie in Unix especially in in FreeBSD. Recently i have setup > one mail server with postfix-dovecot and i would like to migrate it to Qmail > server. but i didn't know how to do it. Someone can give help me? Why in heaven's name would *anyone* want to do that? I have been using Postfix for years now and before that I used qmail - when it was new. qmail sucked *bigtime*! It was slow, picky about the filesystem it worked on (ReiserFS cause very interresting results), a license that doesn't deserve the name and one mistake in the configuration didn't cause an error message but instead sent incoming mail directly to the happy bit grounds. qmail has not really been maintained by the Author over the last few years and although it is distributed in source, changes to it are not allowed, if you plan to distribute the result. This means that in order for qmail to still work today, there is an insane amount of patches out there that have to be applied. IMHO using qmail instead of Postfix is a gigantic step right back into the stone age. Say hello to the dinos for me! :-) Regards, Chris