I have to say, I am quite happy with qmail. It takes a little bit to wrap one's head around all the little pieces, but the design is really elegant, and totally unix in philosophy: simple tools that do simple things reliably, that you string together to do what you want.
I too have implemented spam filtering. I use qconfirm. It works great. I found qmail quite will documented. Even without the book, with the book it should be a peice of cake. I submitted an ebuild for qconfirm in response to a bug requesting one, but I do not think the bug has even been looked at by any one on the gentoo team. It is bug #21580. The bugs.gentoo.org seems to be down at the moment or I would paste a url. The ebuild can be downloaded from the attachment, and put in your portage overlay dir to install with emerge. Per the requirements for new ebuilds it is masked. I love that fact that qmail never runs as root, and will not even deliver mail to root. I have to admit I have never played with postfix. Lincoln On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 01:06, Gour wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > What made Postfix so good you never looked back. Or what > > > made Qmail such that you never wanted to go back to it? > > > > Primarily, the configuration. Postfix's configuration seems alot more > > straight forward to me. Qmail was not HARD to configure, but I feel alot > > more comfortable with postfix. > > Interesting. That's the reason why I choose qmail over Postfix when leaving > Sendmail on my SuSE box. > > I bought Dave Sill's book (it's a Life With Qmail-based install) and following the > instruction installed qmail without a problem. Today qmail is running on a > production > server, with searchable Mailman lists, vpopmail, qmailadmin... > > On my box I also have integrated anti-spam filter as well as anti-virus engine. > > All in all, the lack of clear documentation for Postfix made me to choose Qmail and > never looked back :-) > > Sincerely, > Gour -- Lincoln A. Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
