On Wednesday 05 February 2003 14:37, Anand Buddhdev wrote: > On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 01:02:29PM +0100, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > > I run four Postfixes (one of them with Courier-IMAP), and one Qmail > > with vpopmail. > > > > Postfix is IMO easier to install and administer, but doesn't have a > > point'n'click interface. > > > > It also looks like Postfix is a much faster moving target than > > Qmail, e. g. the virtual address/mailbox support has been evolving > > quite a lot, and the configuration changed in Postfix-2. > > > > I wouldn't recommend Courier; I don't know the SMTP part of the > > pack, but the IMAP server is pretty admin-hostile in that it > > doesn't log almost anything at all, so when you run into trouble, > > you're left to guessing, and hacking the source. > > Courier-IMAP is not admin-hostile. You can enable debugging, and it > will log a lot of information. The SMTP server and client part of > courier is also nice, robust and friendly to other sites, and has many > useful features (RBL checking, rejecting spam, flexible aliasing, > SMTP authentication, SSL support) all out of the box. And if you > install the entire courier suite, you also get a POP server, webmail > server and mailing list manager, and a webadmin CGI to configure it all > easily. Courier's SMTP server takes its basic design from qmail, but has > gone far beyond qmail in features, and has made many improvements over > those parts of qmail that many people have long been criticising. Take > a look at it more closely before trashing it so trivially.
Off topic: If you absolutely do not want to run Courier (or any part of it), you can get the same results with Exim as your MTA, solidpop3d as your POP3 server, UW IMAP (imap-uw in ports) as your IMAP server, and squirrelmail (requires IMAP server and PHP4 supported web server) as your web mail. This set of programs, IMHO, is the best for the job, but you will probably have more trouble configuring them than Courier. Personally I'd go for my set of programs, but they are seperate things that have to be configured to work properly together. As far as features and robustness goes, both solutions will give you exactly the same end result. As for things being admin-hostile. If you are used to something like Windows NT MDaemon or Microsoft Exchange Server, there is simply nothing on the UNIX platform that will ever make you happy, unless you are willing to make a paradigm shift, and to start reading the manuals. I do not know of any good software which can be configured by pointing and clicking. UNIX mail servers have power and versatility, the Windows servers have user interfaces that an infant can master. These two separate paradigms can not be combined. In the case of a system with an easy GUI interface, all you can do with it is what the GUI developer thought of. In the case of UNIX servers, in most cases, you can do what ever you can code in C or perl with it. Will -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
