Re: QMail and DJB ... was Re: [LIH] any one using djbdns?

[omicron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Hi
	Having been running qmail for a couple of months ( only ) now , i think
i can say something about this...

On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> Well ... I'll just say "it's much easier than configuring 8.8.8 and older versions) :)
>
	A few lines in /var/qmail/controls/ ( is that the standard qmail path ?)files can easily change the way qmail works. It's *very* easy. I really dont
know the sendmail.cf syntax, and may be in near future i'll make an effort to
understand it. But @ the first glance, qmail wins.

> etc).  Sendmail = Sendmail, period.  Just an MTA.  Of course, it is shipped
> with several other things (makemap, libmilter, libsmdb, libsmutil, praliases,
> rmail, vacation etc) but they are not part of sendmail, per se.
> 
> > deliver mails - it calls a specialised program designed for mail delivery
> > (procmail) to do that.
>
	Am i missing something ? I use procmail and qmail. add procmail to 
/var/qmail/rc and start up qmail-send, u have an MDA. of course, procmail
being what it is, it is imporssible to restrict it to a specific function . it
is *too* flexible. If u dont want procmail, but wanna use binmail, even that is
supported. if u dont want that, and u need an Mailbox format, that is also 
supported. if u want maildir, that is also supported. i just dont get the idea
of a "specialised program" when u have all the flexiblity that u need. And all
the configurations are simply scripts. u dont need an external 'specialised' 
program.

  
> blackehlo$ du -k /usr/sbin/sendmail
> 388	/usr/sbin/sendmail
> 
> blackehlo$ du -k /etc/mail
> 148	/etc/mail
> 
> blackehlo$ du -k /usr/src/sendmail-8.11.2/doc
> 732	/usr/src/sendmail-8.11.2/doc/op
> 736	/usr/src/sendmail-8.11.2/doc
> 
> However, size doesn't matter.  Exim is substantially larger in size (esp when
> perl support is compiled into it) but it doesnt take up all that much memory.  
>
	I agree . what difference does it make when u have 40 G disks nowadyas.
but if u want ot know, the size fo the directory where i compiled it is 1.2 M 
after compilations. I dont know abot anything else. and it also includes the 
docs. size is not a matter at all.
 
> Postfix is similar to qmail in architecture (not monolithic like sendmail) -
> but it is (imho) streets ahead of qmail in performance (and doesn't try to hog
> all the available connections on a server like qmail does)
> 
	haven't worked on it. have downloaded it, but waiting for a chance to 
chuck out qmail, but i've never had the opportunity to do it.


regards
omicron
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