Mail server HOWTO

[Fritz Whittington]

On or about 2003-12-16 12:26, Rodolfo J. Paiz whipped out a trusty #2 
pencil and scribbled:

> At 11:37 12/16/2003, you wrote:
>
>> FWIW, I installed qmail (+ a bunch of helpers, vpopmail, vqmailadmin, 
>> etc.) following the instructions at www.qmailrocks.org while under RH9.
>> It has worked well and continues to after upgrading to FC1.
>
>
>         1. qmail is not included with Red Hat or Fedora systems. I 
> have derived a great deal of benefit (both personally and financially) 
> by using Red Hat Linux operating systems and software they provide, 
> and I prefer to document that which they provide to help them grow 
> their userbase.
>
>         2. I used and grew to despise qmail. Unfriendly, inhospitable, 
> annoying piece of ... never mind. I refuse to use it any more, and 
> will certainly not recommend it or document it.
>
>         3. I philosophically and emphatically disagree with djb and 
> qmail's design philosophies.
>
>         4. The software is not all it's cracked up to be. Several 
> holes, problems, and deficiencies.
>
> I respect your opinion and preference. The above is just a short 
> summary of mine.
>
>
And I thank you for your observations.  I was unaware of the things you 
mention and will try to investigate them.  As for preference, I'm only 
certain that I prefer it to sendmail :-)  I don't have very demanding 
needs from my mail system, so perhaps that's a factor.  However, I 
couldn't get sendmail to work at all, probably because of not 
understanding how to configure it.  Qmail (or at least the package from 
qmailrocks.org) had very clear instructions and it "just worked".  You 
might want to take a look at their instruction package, and consider its 
possible merits for your own docs package.

-- 
Fritz Whittington
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. (Edgar Allan Poe, "Eleonora")