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:
> Id 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?
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> Id like to suggest an Open Source solution to our Microsoft only mail
> server admins if there is one.
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> Heres the situation:
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> I work for an agency that has been having problems with our Exchange server.
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> Specifically, emails with large files (7-14meg) attatched will crash the
> server.
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> They dont know why the server crashes but heres the solution presented
> to us by Microsoft:
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> 1) limit emails to 3mb
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> 2) upgrade our hardware\$oftware.
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> Our admins added these to the list:
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> 1) burn large files to disk then sneaker net
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> 2) use an ftp server for large files
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> Theres got to be a better way!
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> Thanks
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> -Andrew
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