I love qmail, I just hate to use it :) As a security guy I love qmail and all the other fun DJB joints especially DNS as they are such elegant simple code, really very simple and secure . My problem overall with qmail is that it adheres to standards in e-mail that no one else does so you get odd bounces from time to time as people haven't setup their e-mail to the absolute standard or their MTA is not setup to the standard. If you want absolute security stick with qmail, if you want lots of functionality with good security go with Postfix, if you want a headache go with sendmail :) --j 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 >