| # Question is: can you sell qmail as a cool tool to a moron like
| # me who just popped a RedHat CD out of a box ? Because really,
| # this _is_ the way it's presented, at http://www.qmail.org
It goes without saying that "morons like you who just popped a RedHat CD
out of a box" have no business setting up mail servers, at _all_.
I tried to stay out of this thread, but now I have to comment.
I installed qmail because sendmail was _not_ working for me (fairly
recently -- less than six months ago), and I was pretty sure that if I had
an intimate understanding of its esoteric .cf format I could have fixed
it, but I wasn't interested (and didn't really have the time) to learn
that format.
So I looked for alternatives. Qmail was one, and I was quite taken with
its security implications.
Now, please don't misunderstand, I am a sysadmin for a private box that is
used by pretty much family only -- it's not a critical server. YMMV, if
that doesn't hold true for you.
When I started installing qmail, I was able to compile it, get it running,
(including dotforward and fastforward) in _one_evening_, even though I had
no idea what I was doing, really. This speaks volumes to me for the
documentation that is included with qmail, and is obviously available
from the website.
Since then, I have read this list, tried to read as much information as I
could get my hands on from websites, etc. I still am not a "grand master"
with respect to qmail, but I do consider myself "adept" (I can follow most
of the messages on this list, anyway).
Learning about qmail was _not_ easy, and nobody on this list was going to
jump in and do it for me. (And yes, I was a little disappointed at that
too :) ). But when someone asked a question (not me), and the response
was "RTF#5.5" I decided to go and _read_ it. Eventually, it all started
making sense. But it was _never_ easy.
Anyway, I guess my point is that qmail has a bigger learning curve than
I've encountered in some time, but once that is overcome it *is* much
better (IMHO, of course) than Sendmail.
Troy
