OK, time to learn how to build a server.

[Brad Cox]

On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 08:20:31PM -0800, E Frank Ball wrote:
> 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.

That explains where you got your opinion from, as I have to agree with
you on public file.  It is alot easier when you already have ucspi-tcp
(similar to inetd) and daemontools (replacement for init scripts)
installed on a machine.  If all you want to do is get a webserver up, it
is a bit much to have to figure out both those packages.  But in my
opinion, it is worth setting them up to have a server that just about
never goes down.

> 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.

Somehow I'm not surprised.  Do you happen to know what kind of volume
they were seeing at the time?

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