The Verdict

[Gerald Combs]

I administered sendmail for about 10 years.  Then I went with postfix.

On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, hanasaki wrote:

> 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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