DAve wrote:
Arvinn Løkkebakken wrote:
Robert Leonard wrote:
Can anybody point me to a good forum for Qmail? I'm a newb and a
windows guy
so this is quite the daunting thing! What I want to figure out is
how to
get qmail w/ tcpserver to allow incoming smtp connections from only
SPECIFIC
IP's.. I'm getting flooded by mail coming from places I shouldn't be
getting
mail from!
Thanks in advance!
Qmail is dead. Concider something that is still getting developed. My
preference is Postfix.
Arvinn
I currently run a cluster of qmail machines and find it reliable, the
user base active, the tools up to date. I've run Sendmail, Exim,
Postfix as well. All have their place.
qmail works quite well with spamc and there are several ways to use
the two together. I would argue there are more ways to combine spamc
and qmail than any other mailserver. Choose the best tool for the job.
DAve
I of course agree that one should choose the best tool for the job and
Qmail has been a great tool for years. I have glanced at the doc for
Exim earlier and it looks like a very good alternative. Same goes for
Courier MTA. I've been operating Qmail for some years and found it to
fullfill most needs untill I experienced that the gap between available
functions between my Postfix installation and Qmail installation just
kept getting bigger. I don't enjoy using third-party patches and from
experience I wouldn't recommend a self-claimed rookie to depend on
third-party patches either. Standard Qmail lacks one must-have feature
which is desent before-queue recipient validation. AUTH, STARTTLS/SSL
and ldap/sql lookups support (the list goes on) isn't must-have features
but I would certainly miss it if I picked up standard Qmail again.
http://www.postfix.org/documentation.html is a very fine place to start
if you are a rookie and need documentation and help for installation. I
should have included that URL in my first post.
If you are an experienced unix admin and postmaster you can make Qmail
do anything (including the things I mentioned above) but I think a
newcommer would appreciate to start with a product with more of these as
out-of-the-box features. I feel like a newcommer myself and by using a
more up to date software I really appreciate the fact that I don't have
to inspect every patch to see if it is compatible with all the other
user contributed patches I would choose to use with Qmail.
I am not a troll, and people on the list claiming I am one (straight out
or by beeing sarcastic), will not be replied to by me.
Arvinn
