I see a lot of this, Know qmail, etc... The simple fact is, it's backwards and Dan Bernstein has a bug up his butt to be quite frank about it.
DJB's disregard to Guninski's claim on the $500 guarantee was clearly just pride, DJB should put his money where his mouth is and honor his guarantee.
I'm not saying DJB doesn't do good work, qmail was definitely a good piece of software back in 1998, some would say ahead of it's time. But what I typically see from qmail folks, and I mean no disrespect, is RTFM, etc...
OTOH, the Postfix community is far more active, has more friendly support and just plain makes sense. I'm not a hacker god by any stretch of the imagination, but I would say I know my way around Linux very well. I've made my own obscure patches to programs, fixed bad code and have done a fair amount of work on MTAs in my life.
The simple fact is, it shouldn't be this hard. Documentation for qmail is very obtuse and if anyone suggests something that hasn't been done for the past 8 years they are told to "learn qmail" it seems like a religious cult sometimes.
Again, I'm not trying to start a qmail vs postfix war here, I'm just trying to illustrate what this looks like to qmail outsiders.
I've dealt with qmail for two years now and it still drives me nuts. Logging is strange and incomplete (
[email protected] what's that about?). I always see talk about "use this patch, use that patch" if everyone is using it, why isn't it part of the main tree?
Again, a lot of this is just pure frustration on the simple fact is I bought Plesk to take these problems away from me. Having to be this deep in a product kind of defeats the purpose of purchasing it in the first place. I like just about everything else in the Plesk array, I just wish they'd either make qmail a bit more easy to work with, or give users an option. Postfix is flexible enough that it
should be a simple drop in replacement. I've toyed with this idea for a while and I'm crazy enough now that I just might do it.
I want to re-iterate that I mean no disrespect to the qmail users or the community, it's definitely a group of people who love their product and it works well for them. But it's not one-size-fits-all, unless you have a big enough hammer.