[Linux] qmail

[Carl C.]

At 12:52 PM 7/10/00 -0400, you wrote:
>I see nobody replied to your request, so I just wanted to share this...

Actually, I've been helping Kerry with this. He found part of the problem
in that Qmail uses Maildir instead of Mailboxs.

>I had setup qmail once a year ago or so, and just to share my opinion, I
>removed  it from the server.  There were about 5 patches, and other apps
>something like vpchk ( whatever) that allowed it to work properly, but we
>ended up just not liking it, it was combersome.

I've worked on different MTAs, and qmail was a much lighter load on
the server than sendmail. Thats why redhat gave up on sendmail and
switched to qmail. I've worked on Microsoft Exchange (and still do 8) ),
Lotus CC:Mail, All-in-One mail and OpenMAIL (HP product). I still
say Qmail is the lightest, fastest MTA for the $$$ (oh, I don't mind
being proven wrong. There could be a new one that I have yet to 
run across, so please point out any that are better).

I use qmail with vpopmail. Domain administration is a snap....

I remember you had a problem with spammers. I added the spam prevention
goodies from qmail and its been working great.

> (We know that many people
>are using it)   I think we will eventually go to postfix, which I suggest
>you look at because it is much cleaner, and I beleive maybe more
>effiecient ( written by the guy who wrote tcpwrappers ).

This last weekend, I was talking to a fellow autocross driver who
uses it for a local NSP. They are going to scrap it. If it gets out
of whack, its just a pain to fix. They had to restore each user one
by one cause it corrupted the database.

>Also if you continue to pursue qmail, there as a valuable too called
>qmailadmin, which was worth looking in to.

I like it because I can just give the client the URL and postmaster
password. They control the email domain from there on.

Just add SQWebmail and you also have a web mail interface. I like that
so I can check mail at a friends house and when I get home or to work,
I can still POP the mail down that I read.

Also, VPOPMAIL will allow selective relay. This keeps the spammers
out of your system and they can just set the emails address to be
"someone@yourdomain.com". When a user logs into the POP or APOP,
VPOPMAIL records the IP address. You can set how long on the SMTP
server to be a relay for that IP address. You could, if you want,
put in permanent IP addresses for a network (perm open relay).

A local travel company I consult for is using the SQWebmail for all 
the clients. The "postmaster" is using the qmail admin. What really sold
them on this instead of Microsoft Exchange was cost.

	Linux $0.00
	Qmail $0.00
	Vpopmail $0.00
	qmailadmin $0.00
	SQwebmail $0.00

I was able to set it up in under 8 hours (including Linux install).

If you have the time, I do recommend to people to explore all the
possibilities for the different MTAs that are out there. Its an
amazing number of them for Linux.

$0.02,
Carl
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