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author | meillo@marmaro.de |
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date | Fri, 06 Feb 2009 15:59:05 +0100 |
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meillo@32 | 1 from ``Life with qmail'' |
meillo@32 | 2 ======================== |
meillo@32 | 3 (november 2007) |
meillo@32 | 4 1.9. Comparison with other MTA's |
meillo@32 | 5 |
meillo@32 | 6 A book could be written about this topic, but it would be tedious reading. Here's a quick comparison of qmail with some of the most common UNIX MTA's. |
meillo@32 | 7 |
meillo@32 | 8 ┌────────┬────────┬────────┬────────┬───────────┬───────────┬───────┐ |
meillo@32 | 9 │MTA │Maturity│Security│Features│Performance│Sendmailish│Modular│ |
meillo@32 | 10 ├────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼───────────┼───────────┼───────┤ |
meillo@32 | 11 │qmail │medium │high │high │high │addons │yes │ |
meillo@32 | 12 ├────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼───────────┼───────────┼───────┤ |
meillo@32 | 13 │Sendmail│high │low │high │low │x │no │ |
meillo@32 | 14 ├────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼───────────┼───────────┼───────┤ |
meillo@32 | 15 │Postfix │medium │high │high │high │yes │yes │ |
meillo@32 | 16 ├────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼───────────┼───────────┼───────┤ |
meillo@32 | 17 │exim │medium │low │high │medium │yes │no │ |
meillo@32 | 18 ├────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼───────────┼───────────┼───────┤ |
meillo@32 | 19 │Courier │low │medium │high │medium │optional │yes │ |
meillo@32 | 20 └────────┴────────┴────────┴────────┴───────────┴───────────┴───────┘ |
meillo@32 | 21 |
meillo@32 | 22 Sendmailish means the MTA behaves like Sendmail in some ways that would make a switch from Sendmail to the alternative MTA more user-transparent, such as the use of .forward files, /etc/aliases, and delivery to /var/spool/mail. |
meillo@32 | 23 |
meillo@32 | 24 Jonathan de Boyne Pollard has reviews of many Unix MTAs at http://homepages.tesco.net/~J.deBoynePollard/Reviews/UnixMTSes/. |
meillo@32 | 25 Another detailed comparison is available at http://www.geocities.com/mailsoftware42/. |
meillo@32 | 26 |
meillo@32 | 27 |
meillo@32 | 28 |
meillo@32 | 29 |
meillo@32 | 30 from ``open source mail server comparison'' |
meillo@32 | 31 =========================================== |
meillo@32 | 32 (november 2003) |
meillo@32 | 33 |
meillo@32 | 34 This is a comparison between all the free open-source mail software solutions actually avalaible. I want to thanks all the sofware developers for developing such a great software for the open source community. |
meillo@32 | 35 |
meillo@32 | 36 COURIER-MTA EXIM POSTFIX SENDMAIL QMAIL |
meillo@32 | 37 |
meillo@32 | 38 Version: Courier-0.44.x Exim Version Postfix Version Sendmail qmail-1.03 |
meillo@32 | 39 4.2x 2.0 Patchlevel x 8.12.x |
meillo@32 | 40 |
meillo@32 | 41 Managing Imap Exim: The Mail Postfix Sendmail The qmail |
meillo@32 | 42 Transfer Agent Handbook |
meillo@32 | 43 |
meillo@32 | 44 Licence: GPL GPL IBM Public ? Especial |
meillo@32 | 45 License |
meillo@32 | 46 |
meillo@32 | 47 |
meillo@32 | 48 Authenticated SMTP Login/CRAM-MD5 Login/Plain/ yes (using SASL) yes(using patch |
meillo@32 | 49 CRAM-MD5 SASL) |
meillo@32 | 50 |
meillo@32 | 51 SMTP over SSL/TLS yes ? ? ? patch |
meillo@32 | 52 |
meillo@32 | 53 STARTTLS extension yes yes ? yes patch |
meillo@32 | 54 |
meillo@32 | 55 POP before SMTP no ? Yes ? addon |
meillo@32 | 56 |
meillo@32 | 57 Virtual Domains support yes yes yes yes yes |
meillo@32 | 58 |
meillo@32 | 59 Supported Backends Ldap / MySQL / PostgreSQL Ldap / MySQL Ldap / MySQL Ldap Ldap patch/ |
meillo@32 | 60 MySQL patch |
meillo@32 | 61 |
meillo@32 | 62 IPv6 support yes yes no (patch) yes patch |
meillo@32 | 63 |
meillo@32 | 64 Included POP server yes (SSL support, Apop not no no no yes |
meillo@32 | 65 included, SASL included) |
meillo@32 | 66 |
meillo@32 | 67 Included IMAP server yes (SSL included) no no no no |
meillo@32 | 68 Mailbox Format: Maildir /mbox/Maildir ++ Maildir/mbox/ Maildir/mbox mbox Maildir/mbox |
meillo@32 | 69 mbx? |
meillo@32 | 70 |
meillo@32 | 71 Quota support yes yes patch no patch / |
meillo@32 | 72 addons |
meillo@32 | 73 |
meillo@32 | 74 Mailing list manager couriermlm no ? ? ezmlm |
meillo@32 | 75 |
meillo@32 | 76 Configurable |
meillo@32 | 77 Deliver-Status-Notification yes yes no? ? no |
meillo@32 | 78 (DSN) |
meillo@32 | 79 |
meillo@32 | 80 Log analysing utilities no yes yes yes yes |
meillo@32 | 81 |
meillo@32 | 82 Verbosity logging options: no yes yes ? yes |
meillo@32 | 83 |
meillo@32 | 84 Web-based Administration yes no yes / no yes/no yes / no |
meillo@32 | 85 |
meillo@32 | 86 |
meillo@32 | 87 |
meillo@32 | 88 SUBJECTIVE CHARACTERISTICS: |
meillo@32 | 89 |
meillo@32 | 90 COURIER-MTA EXIM POSTFIX SENDMAIL QMAIL |
meillo@32 | 91 |
meillo@32 | 92 Security: ? low-medium high low high / very high |
meillo@32 | 93 |
meillo@32 | 94 Installation: medium medium easy - easy medium-difficult |
meillo@32 | 95 medium |
meillo@32 | 96 |
meillo@32 | 97 Configuration: medium easy-medium easy difficult easy |
meillo@32 | 98 |
meillo@32 | 99 Performance: ? medium high low high |
meillo@32 | 100 |
meillo@32 | 101 Maturity/status low low medium high medium |
meillo@32 | 102 : |
meillo@32 | 103 |
meillo@32 | 104 Documentation: low high medium-high high high (but sometimes confusing) |
meillo@32 | 105 |
meillo@32 | 106 Features: high medium-high medium high low (There are many patches available for adding |
meillo@32 | 107 Features) |
meillo@32 | 108 |