The Verdict
hanasaki
hanasaki at hanaden.com
Wed Mar 13 15:21:30 CST 2002
I looked at sendmail and the 2 or three volumes that Oreily has. Then I
went with exim.org
Lucas Peet wrote:
> Ok, here's the verdict. First of all, could someone forward me the any
> emails that werereplied to the email I sent last night? My email has been down, and I
> didn't get them.
> Qmail
> SUCKS. They say it's "easier to configure" than sendmail?! Not hardly!
> The installation isEXTREMELY involved, and frankly won't work on Redhat 7.2. I tried
> *everything*. Wentthrough like 5 different tutorials, each describing the install a slightly
> different way. Ibuilt it from source, SRPMS, and pre-compiled RPMS. None of it worked. I
> take that back, I didactually have it working for about 30 min, but only if I started it
> manually (unacceptable)and could not get it to startup by itself (or on system start). Once I
> had it running though, Iwas able to create a folder, drop a mail item in it, and create a folder
> underneath it (one of thefeatures I was looking for).
>
> I tried for HOURS to get this thing to work - and finally gave up
> at 1:30am. As far as ease of configuration, as far as I'm concerned,
> Sendmail whips it. Thismorning, I threw in my RH7.2 CD, installed from RPM sendmail and
> sendmail-cf, edited mysendmail.cf, adding two Cwdomain.com lines, and changed the listen port
> address from127.0.0.1 to my IP. Then, with a simple "/sbin/service sendmail start",
> BINGO. Instantemail. Send and receive. Closed relay. Everything all set.
>
> Qmail documentation sucks.
> Go to the Qmail site. Everything is all spread out, there seems to be no
> "standard" place for itall. Sure, you can get the tarball from there, but that's all.
> Additional libraries arespread out over links that look like "Someone J. Else's site with RPMS
> click here", and none ofit is up to date (most is YEARS old).
>
> A google search pulls up the same tuts on different
> sites, no help at all. I'm sure Qmail is great and all (otherwise I
> probably wouldn't have evenconsidered moving to it) but as far as (quoted from the Qmail home
page)
> "making Sendmailobsolete"?!? SOMEONE's on crack!
>
> I might give it a go, and change my stance on this
> sometime, possibly in the near future, but I'm not going to get into it
> without some help.Going into this, I EXPECTED it to work (as I have come to do with just
> about all Linux software Iinstall - it's high quality stuff!) and have my email system down for a
> max of 30 min or so. 30 minturned into 13.5 hours, and if I had any real users on my system
> (especially ones who send memoney!) this would have been completely UNACCEPTABLE. It still is,
since
> I still considermyself and my wife users.
>
> If any of you have *successfully* gotten Qmail installed on
> RedHat 7.2 PLEASE let me know, and teach me your dark magic (since it
> appears as that's what ittakes!)!!!
>
> <sigh> What a worthless ordeal.
>
> -Lucas
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