The Verdict

[Jeremy Fowler]

Yes, you should try Postfix. I used Sendmail for about a year, switch to qmail
for awhile (didn't like it either), and now I run postfix and have ever since.
The config file is self-explanatory and it's easy to setup. As far as qmail
goes, I agree with you that it can be a pain. Plus you need to download and
install daemontools in order to set it up correctly. There is a couple programs
in daemontools that are used to start and stop the qmail process. It monitors if
the process quits and restarts it automatically. Overall it's a pain. Live and
learn.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net
> [mailto:owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net]On Behalf Of Lucas Peet
> Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 9:16 AM
> To: kclug at kclug.org
> Subject: The Verdict
>
>
> 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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