Postfix

[Brian Densmore]

I'm using postfix.
Uptime: 344 days. It would be over 1000 but
there was the physical move of the equipment 
from one location to another and the darn ice-storm 
that knocked out most of KC a ways back. Also, a very 
low usage box (really just a personal server) so
I don't get much spam there and not very much mail at 
all. I am in the process (someday) of migrating to
a qmail system. I'm running this on a Pentium 75 with
40MB RAM along with apache+ssl, webmail, sshd and local DNS.

Brian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Duane Attaway 
> 
> On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
> 
> > Any postfix users out there?
> 
> I used it for several months, but went back to sendmail.  
> 
> Postfix has a simple configuration file in english.  This may 
> be good if
> sendmail's m4 macros seem scary.  But I didn't like how 
> Postfix handled
> spam, accepting each mail even if it was an invalid user, 
> then "sending"  
> it back as a bounce.  This was a problem as it amplified the bandwidth
> from spammers to users that didn't exist.  Postfix 
> effectively DOS'ed my
> computer by crashing the memory to the end of swap.  I 
> stopped updating
> the IP address to my attaway.net domain and went back to sendmail.  
> Sendmail seems much less memory intensive and behaves very 
> well on my 32MB
> box with all my other applications.
> 
> Postfix's configuration file seemed rather limited in 
> configuring how it
> was to handle different conditions.  Sendmail seems to be written from
> experience and does not quit.  Since my computer has been 
> running for 247
> days without a reboot, I'm sticking with sendmail.  It works. 
>  Postfix 
> didn't.