Hello, qmail!
On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 02:00:51PM +0100, Sasa Ugrenovic wrote:
> Ok .. i have a question.
> Is qmail usable ? I used qmail for 5 years before I switched to
> postfix. I hope DJB reads this, because qmail is obsolete... you have
> to apply a million patches (which have backward compatibility issues)
> to have a decent functional SMTP. Greylisting, helo checks, blabla ..
Well, I applied a tiny fraction of a percent the number of patches you
did. And my qmail works.
It's not the mail server I wanted though. I wanted a nice small friendly
mail server to run on my home Linux box, a program which would merely
connect my mutt with my ISP's mail server. And, more importantly, a
program I could set up within an hour, whilst remaining as ignorant as
possible about mail transportation. ;-)
Such a program doesn't seem to exist - I once tried masqmail, but it lost
some of my outgoing mail. I just want to be a user. How difficult can
it be to configure a program merely to connect mutt with ISP?
Then I tried some of the available elephantine servers. exim, for
example, has no user documentation - it has "the manual", which is about
half the size of "War and Peace" (I downloaded a text-only copy of W&P
from project Gutenberg, just to see how big it was - yes, I know....),
and presumably this manual does contain pertinent user documentation
scattered about it somewhere. When I complained about its unreadability,
the mailing list told me not to expect much help if I wasn't "even"
prepared to RTFM.
Next stop was postfix. "Oh deity, do I really have to wade through all
this?" I gave up after about 4 hours. Wonderful software it might be,
but missing a critical component, "Life with Postfix".
So I ended up at qmail. My ISP uses that, and he's always been a helpful
sort of chap. And, of course, there's "Life with qmail." :-) Well, I
had to install an SMTP-AUTH patch, and then I had to debug it. :-( DJB's
style of commenting his code takes some getting used to, but at least the
accuracy level of the comments is high. ;-)
So, qmail's not really what I want or need, but it's good enough. And it
_works_. This email is evidence!
> This is not a flamebait, .....
Of course it isn't. Perish the thought! Who could possibly take such a
pleasant conciliatory post for flamebait?
> .... i still use qmail/vpopmail on servers behind my MX processor which
> doesn't run qmail, since I'm not a zaelot.
A lot of what? zaes?
> Kind Regards,
> Sasa
And to yourself. Happy weekend!
--
Alan Mackenzie (Ittersbach, Germany)
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