[OpenIndiana-discuss] OT postfix v.s Qmail

[Dan Swartzendruber]

On 4/24/2012 12:43 PM, Gary Gendel wrote:
> Dan,
>
> I've been using qmail since the end of the 80's
>
> Yes, greylisting is a powerful tool.  I get that with spamdyke for 
> qmail.  Spamdyke and mailfront were the two biggest reasons that I 
> stayed with qmail so long.
>
> I saw two greylisting packages for postfix when I was doing my 
> searching.  I'm convinced that I want to go to postfix, but it looks 
> like it will be a painful transition.
>
> I've got two chains.  One from port 25 that uses spamdyke, and one 
> from port 587 that uses mailfront (to give me SSL/TLS and 
> authorization).  Since they both converge at the qmail-queue process 
> that handles the delivery portion, it's a nice clean path to 
> delivery.  I may try to use postfix to replace one first so I can 
> really thresh out the issues.

Gary, have you visited the postfix site?  There are howtos for a bunch 
of these issues.  It really shouldn't need to be painful or tricky.