On 01/11/2012 07:37 AM, Amit wrote:
Had someone gone with indimail. They had modified the qmail for better
and faster delivery.
http://indimail.sourceforge.net/
I’m not here to show advantage or benefits of other mail server on the
list, but as a old user of qmailtoaster how can we upgrade our toaster
with the new features. It also has many features like preventing
outgoing mail from different domain with authentication from domain on
server (just like gmail) and many other features.
Eric, As a new leader of qmailtoaster, I would appreciate if you check
out with new upgrades and features to qmailtoaster. I had been very less
active on list from last few months, but I never missed to read mails
whenever I get time and post. I’m ready to help whatever possible from
my side.
*Amit Dalia**
*
Greetings Amit.
Thank you for pointing out indimail. I've taken a cursory look at it,
and my thinking about it (and perhaps some other things) follows.
In leading QMT forward, consideration of the community base will be
important, and requires an understanding of that base. I wrote a piece
about this on one of the QMT lists several years back but can't seem to
locate it now.
In a nutshell, I wrote that we have 2 basic types of installations of
QMT. The first is the small appliance type installation, which services
one to a handful of domains. This is the primary and foremost type of
installation in my mind, as it's consistent with the original project
objective.
The second is the Mail Service Provider (MSP) type of installation,
which tends to be much larger. While the MSP installations were not a
part of the original project objective, they have become a natural and
substantial part of the community.
While the two types of installations each present their own set of
challenges, QMT has been able to successfully satisfy most of the needs
of both types. My intension is to lead QMT in a direction that continues
to meet the needs of both types of installations. This will be done by
changing QMT in such a way that its components are more loosely coupled
and more highly cohesive. This will allow for more effective utilization
of virtualization technologies, which will provide benefits to both
types of installations.
That being said, I don't think my role includes searching out features
that *I* think people need or might want. That's something which is up
to you, the community. If you have a problem that a change to QMT would
help to alleviate, please create an enhancement ticket explaining the
situation. Tickets are not just for bug reports, but are also *the* way
to initiate changes. While I expect we might be using a different ticket
system (Trac) in the not too distant future, everyone should feel free
to create enhancement tickets using the present system at
http://bugs.qmailtoaster.com/.
Regarding indimail's "better and faster delivery", I would ask "better
and faster than what?". Is your QMT installation suffering in this
regard? To be honest, I doubt that this is a big problem for many (if
any) QMT installations.
My general impression of indimail is that it's suited toward very large
enterprise type installations. While I do hope that QMT will eventually
acquire certain "enterprisey" features (such as AD/LDAP integration), I
don't expect to see the distributed domain capability (hostcntrl) or
queue collection (qmail-multi) feature implemented in QMT. If anyone has
a need in this area though, I would hope that they'd ask for it. My
expectations don't determine what's needed or not.
If there's a specific feature that you want to see in QMT, create a
ticket for it, and it will be addressed in due time. There will of
course be no guarantees when or if any particular change will be
implemented. We'll all do our best though.
As always, your help with the project is appreciated. This is a
community project, and everything that is done is a result of community
participation. My thanks to everyone involved.
--
-Eric 'shubes'
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