DAve wrote:
Christopher Chan wrote:
John Simpson wrote:
On 2006-12-18, at 0444, Christopher Chan wrote:
Darrel O'Pry wrote:
I'm currently considering replacing qmail in my mail systems.
I was wondering if anyone had tried vpopmail with postfix or exim and
what their experiences were.
Yeah, I use vpopmail with postfix. Love it. postfix user existence
checks mean I don't have large queues.
How? I have looked for this several times in the past few years and not
seen it. Other than the postfix.txt on the inter7 website, but nothing
substantial about how it is done, caveats, etc.
Please see my post to Darrel. The caveat for the way I do it currently
is you lose qmail-users and dot-qmail. Until someone writes a
qmail-lspawn for postfix...you can only use maildrop + courier-authlib.
funny, i've been doing the same thing using qmail (making sure
recipient email addresses exist before accepting a RCPT command in
the SMTP conversation) for over a year now.
Yes. with a patch. I know patches exist. I have nothing against qmail.
I will recommend qmail where it is most suitable...as the mta for
outgoing mails for a mailing list or as the second stage in the
inbound system due to dot-qmail which is a delivery system that is
second to none.
Uh oh, I feel it coming....
:)
<soapbox>
Patch smatch, if it's a patch everyone gets to beat qmail up and scream
at each other about what a wasted never updated POS qmail is. So patches
are bad bad bad. Only software that is poor and decrepit uses patches.
But, let someone add that patch to the source code and bundle up a new
package and suddenly every new user who posts a question is told "You
need the latest version". I have seen this many many times on many many
maillists.
We have not had to make a security update to our qmail installs in the 5
years we have been running them. All it took was running "patch <
somediff" a few times ONCE during the initial install.
Lets be honest here, most minor version upgrades in OSS are the result
of contributed patches (developer or user). Yet no one is claiming that
vpopmail/postfix/perl/ruby/python is a patchy POS after we see the
developers accepting patches from users and rolling out an upgrade.
'I' don't mind patches. I, however, would rather point new ones to
postfix than go through the whole patched qmail thing because after
patching, qmail ceases to be simple. Might as well have them wrap their
heads around postfix.
