Well if we are building from scratch I would put in my vote for Exim, having used it for a couple of large projects, I have found that its widely maintained and isn't sorry to say stagnant like Qmail is, there hasn't been a release of Qmail past 1.03 I would say and that Exim has matured to 4.x with a wide user base.
Supports Maildirs, LDAP and other authentication methods natively no need to patch things and is much easier to do things with check it out (http://www.exim.org) Cheers, Aly. Andy Schuler wrote: > On Tue, 2002-07-30 at 12:02, daniel wrote: > > >>'cause i'm "practicing" for a linux build on a machine that won't be big >>enough for a redhat install. besides, i want to learn how to do things from >>source and not be dependant of pre-made packages. it breeds problems just >>like this one where i don't know what kind of authorisation my machine is >>using and should use for pop3. >> > > > Since you're building your mail server from source why not look at qmail > instead of sendmail? It has many advantages over sendmail, one of the > major ones being security. There are some great step-by-step toasters > out there for building qmail on a linux system. It can be used very > easily with vpopmail for vitual domains and can be configured with > Spamassassin for spam control. I have also found that I like dealing > with Maildirs much better than mboxs. Check it out > > http://qmail.org > > > > > -- Aly Dharshi [EMAIL PROTECTED] System Administrator ORS Servers "A good speech is like a good dress that's short enough to be interesting and long enough to cover the subject" -- redhat-list mailing list Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
