[Wolves] Re: Wolves Digest, Vol 80, Issue 10

[Katherine Goodwin]

David Goodwin wrote :
> I think Linux Format is better than LU&D... having said that Linux 
> Format's current issue has a crap article about mail servers - it 
> compares Courier, Postfix, Exim and Sendmail with one another commercial 
> one. Cyrus is mentioned, very briefly when the author says something 
> non-true about it (i think he said it uses mbox format, when it uses 
> maildir...).
I think he also said something about postfix only being able to authenticate from files
which is quite funny considering ours authenticate with LDAP, and you can also use
relational databases 
> 
> How can you compare an IMAP server with ones that do only SMTP? Aren't 
> they supposed to fit together to form a solution....

They were definitely not comparing like with like.  Comparing 'all-in-one' solutions to
programs that focus on a single particular task is, as far as I'm concerned, useless.
I know this area can be complex when you consider all the different tasks you might want a
mail server to perform and all the different solutions that are available, but I can't see
an excuse to say things that are not true, and that we managed to check in around 1 minute
on the postfix website.
> 
> David.
> 
> p.s I probably think it's a crap article as Postfix didn't do very well 
> ratings wise.
You are probably biased, but as I said, there's no excuse for that sort of inaccuracy
> 

Kat