Re: Flame Bait: Using Qmail as a front-line mail server

2001-08-09 Thread Adam Nealis
--- Sean Chittenden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Exchange box is firewalled and boarded up and placed behind wallboard Except you can't do that with an NT box because you'll need access to reboot it every so many days and you can't do that remotely out of the box ;).

Re: Flame Bait: Using Qmail as a front-line mail server

2001-08-09 Thread Ross Cooney
enough anti Microsoft shit and lets get on with life. Ross [moved to mutt from Outlook for this listperfer Outlook] On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 09:17:24AM +0100, Adam Nealis wrote: --- Sean Chittenden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Exchange box is firewalled and boarded up and placed behind

Re: Flame Bait: Using Qmail as a front-line mail server

2001-08-09 Thread Russell Nelson
Steve writes: 1. Is it possible to list the Qmail server as the primary MX record and still forward the mail to its final destination? All my research says no, but I need to be certain. Use smtproutes. It essentially functions as an MX record with priority -1 (in other words, a stronger

Re: Flame Bait: Using Qmail as a front-line mail server

2001-08-08 Thread Alex Pennace
On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 09:00:46PM -0400, Steve wrote: 1. Is it possible to list the Qmail server as the primary MX record and still forward the mail to its final destination? All my research says no, but I need to be certain. Yes, use smtproutes. See the manual page for qmail-remote.

Re: Flame Bait: Using Qmail as a front-line mail server

2001-08-08 Thread Sean Chittenden
1. Is it possible to list the Qmail server as the primary MX record and still forward the mail to its final destination? All my research says no, but I need to be certain. Yes, use smtproutes. See the manual page for qmail-remote. Or create a ton of forwarding rules

Flame Bait: Using Qmail as a front-line mail server

2001-08-06 Thread Steve
First, let me say I've searched the archives, Google and numerous other sources BEFORE I decided to post this. I do not desire the attacks that the qmail list is infamous for. The company I work for, a mid-sized ISP, uses Sendmail as the primary MTA for our clients. Given the downturn in the

Re: Flame Bait: Using Qmail as a front-line mail server

2001-08-06 Thread MarkD
1. Is it possible to list the Qmail server as the primary MX record and still forward the mail to its final destination? All my research says no, but I need to be certain. It's trivial. smtproutes is your friend. 2. If #1 is possible, could your generously provide some real world

Re: Flame Bait: Using Qmail as a front-line mail server

2001-08-06 Thread Dean Staff
On 7 Aug 2001, at 1:09, MarkD wrote: 1. Is it possible to list the Qmail server as the primary MX record and still forward the mail to its final destination? All my research says no, but I need to be certain. It's trivial. smtproutes is your friend. So true! I use it to do

Re: Flame Bait: Using Qmail as a front-line mail server

2001-08-06 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Dean Staff wrote: qmail can handle running on lower end equipment Except for its unfortunate habit of laying bare the i/o bottlenecks you never knew you had. ;-) - -d - -- David Talkington http://www.spotnet.org PGP key: