Sendmail-Qmail question

[D Uhlman]

Andrew,

We own a hosting company and recently switched to qmail from postfix for 
its better virtualization and better web based management tools. 
Checkout qmail toaster rpms at http://qmailtoaster.clikka.com/. Qmail 
has a strange source only license but the self building srpms make it 
easy to install. QMail is extremely good, it performs very well, it has 
a good attention to security and so on. We limit our attachments to 10mb 
and have had no problems in that regard.

Sendmail is awful from a performance, configuration, security 
standpoint. It has a terrible record on all counts, I find it very hard 
to justify its use to day in the face of postfix and qmail.

Sincerely,
David Uhlman
CTO 50km Inc.

Bruner, Andrew wrote:

> I’d like to get some comments from the list regarding Sendmail & Qmail. 
> My question(s) are: Does anyone know if Sendmail or Qmail can handle 
> large file attatchments and 12,000 users? Also is there a configuration 
> that will enable  us to maintain Public Folders and use a client like MS 
> Outlook? 
> 
> I’d like to suggest an Open Source solution to our Microsoft only mail 
> server admins if there is one.
> 
>  
> 
> Here’s the situation:
> 
> I work for an agency that has been having problems with our Exchange server.
> 
> Specifically, emails with large files (7-14meg) attatched will crash the 
> server.
> 
> They don’t know why the server crashes but heres the solution presented 
> to us by Microsoft:
> 
> 1)       limit emails to 3mb
> 
> 2)       upgrade our hardware\$oftware.
> 
>  
> 
> Our admins added these to the list:
> 
> 1)       burn large files to disk then sneaker net
> 
> 2)       use an ftp server for large files
> 
>  
> 
> There’s got to be a better way!
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks
> 
> -Andrew
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>