i've already compiled, installed and configured sendmail and that's what i want to use. my problem is with imap/pop3.
_________________________________ daniel a. g. quinn starving programmer the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots. - thomas jefferson ----- Original Message ----- Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 3:08 PM Subject: Re: mail server from source saga continues.... | 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 | -- redhat-list mailing list Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
