Ideal mail server: qmail or postfix

[max.clark at media.net (Max Clark)]

> Yahoo-MTA is based on Qmail, but bares little resemblance to Qmail
>now.  It looks like every single SMTP response has been changed, except
>for "354 go ahead".  Plus, Yahoo-MTA supports SIZE and recipient
>verification.

Yes which is a testimate to qmail's flexibility. You can easily customize
the response codes as well as the SIZE/recipient verification in the control
files.

Look at http://develooper.com/code/qpsmtpd/ it is a drop in replacement for
the smtpd daemon written in perl (ever want to write your own plugin to a
mail server? here is the framework).

Max

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Samplonius [mailto:tom_(_at_)_sdf_(_dot_)_com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 7:39 AM
To: Max Clark
Cc: James Godwin; freebsd-isp_(_at_)_freebsd_(_dot_)_org
Subject: RE: Ideal mail server: qmail or postfix



On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Max Clark wrote:

> It should be pointed out...
>
> Yahoo mail (how many million users do you think they have?) is running
> qmail-ldap. The Maildir's are on NetApp filers, the lists are running
> exmlm-idx, the web interface seems to be based off of sqWebMail, and the
> ldap backend is Novell.
...

  Yahoo-MTA is based on Qmail, but bares little resemblance to Qmail
now.  It looks like every single SMTP response has been changed, except
for "354 go ahead".  Plus, Yahoo-MTA supports SIZE and recipient
verification.

Tom