Bob Johnson wrote:
On 5/30/08, DAve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Eric Zimmerman wrote:
Foo JH wrote:
I like Qmail. It's not overly difficult to configure, and it's
extensible.
and requires 400 patches to do basic things =(
List them, not 100, not 399, all 400 please.
Keep in mind that when your download x.x.x release of a software package
you are downloading a "patched" source code. Sendmail has been patched
many times, Postfix is patched, Exim is patched. qmail just requires you
apply your own patches. Patching is not a bad thing, shrinkwrap mail
admins applying patches that they do not understand is a bad thing.
heres some interesting reading about qmail...
http://www.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de/~ma/qmail-bugs.html
That so much time and effort is spent telling everyone how bad qmail is
still amazes me. It is one of the best performing and most extensible
MTAs I have ever used. It is not however, suitable for those who choose
not to understand how mail works. Point and clickers should stay with
Postfix, also a very capable MTA.
I agree. No one should use Qmail unless they have read and completely
understand every email-related RFC and have at least two years of
experience running a commercial mail server. Amateurs shouldn't even
consider it.
Please, use anything but Qmail. It sprays backscatter spam all over
the internet.
- Bob
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I'd personally vouch for Qmail myself. Having been an administrator now
for mail servers in general for nearly 15 years, with experience with
most notable mailers, Qmail by far lends itself to be the most highly
configurable mailer assuming you know what you want ahead of time. Most
experienced sysadmins, once they know what they want, can apply those
patches to qmail with ease and roll out additional Qmail installations
with a single package. Very easy indeed.
However, in an attempt to remain as unbiased as possible (too late I
realize) and just to reiterate, Qmail even though I believe it is a
wonderful piece of software, you definately need to know what you are
doing. Postfix, exim, etc., take a lot of guess work away from the
administrator by making assumptions that qmail doesn't make. Some claim
that this makes these packages better. For this reason, especially if
you aren't familiar with any mailer, I would suggest something other
than Qmail.
Bob, as for 'backscaatter spam' (assuming I understood you), that's rubbish:
http://www.interazioni.it/opensource/chkusr/ (as an example)
Cheers!
~Paul
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