OK, time to learn how to build a server.

[E Frank Ball]

On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 07:35:29PM -0800, troy wrote:
} 
} Frank,  not sure what you mean by 'bitch'  I run production qmail
} mailservers on FreeBSD and RH.  Both built from source with no problems and
} require almost zero maintenance.  Also, personally, i really dig ezmlm for
} mailing lists.  I *am* quite certain what you mean by 'insane' and think
} you're being far too kind to sendmail :)

I may be overly pessimistic about installing qmail, especially if RPM
packages are available now - they weren't 3 years ago.  At the time I
downloaded the source for qmail, postfix, and exim and browsed the docs
on each one and postfix looked much easier.  Friends told me qmail was a
pain.  I once started installing "public file" by the same DJB guy that
wrote qmail and it *was* a bitch, I quit and found something else.

qmail is certainly secure, I'm not familiar with all the features or
speed comparisons, but for a home DSL machine it probably doesn't
matter.

Postfix has been "stable" since the remote relay bug was fixed in Dec
'99.  That's the version that's still in Debian stable.  When I updated
a couple weeks ago after 2 years 3 months my configuration files were
all fully backwards compatible.  Everything worked as it had and I just
had to add a few lines to use the new virtual address mapping features I
wanted.

In the same time span sendmail has had a couple of remote root exploits
if I remember right.  When Agilent Technologies switched their two email
gateways from sendmail to postfix they said the load on the machines
dropped from 25 to 2.

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   E Frank Ball                frankb at efball.com