Re: [gentoo-user] sorta OT - honest (!) opinions on mailservers

2005-06-14 Thread A. Khattri
On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: yes, but most knowledgable people know that exim blows the pants off qmail and postfix. Now why would you want to start a flame war? Noone said package X is better than package Y - most of us are just saying what works well for us. --

Re: [gentoo-user] sorta OT - honest (!) opinions on mailservers

2005-06-14 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Jun 14, 2005, at 11:47 AM, A. Khattri wrote: On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: yes, but most knowledgable people know that exim blows the pants off qmail and postfix. Now why would you want to start a flame war? Noone said package X is better than package Y -

Re: [gentoo-user] sorta OT - honest (!) opinions on mailservers

2005-06-14 Thread A. Khattri
On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, Antoine wrote: From some reading this looks like it would fit the bill. Do you know of any helpful howtos for this or similar combos? You could look at lifewithqmail.org or google for qmail toaster. We are using a custom build with almost everything hooked into MySQL

Re: [gentoo-user] sorta OT - honest (!) opinions on mailservers

2005-06-14 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Jun 14, 2005, at 11:54 AM, A. Khattri wrote: The usual clamav + spamassassin combo. If you do decide to go the exim route, there are two ways to interface spamassassin to it. One is now built in called exiscan. The other is called sa-exim and, the reason I am mentioning this, it

Re: [gentoo-user] sorta OT - honest (!) opinions on mailservers

2005-06-14 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
A. Khattri wrote: On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: yes, but most knowledgable people know that exim blows the pants off qmail and postfix. Now why would you want to start a flame war? Noone said package X is better than package Y - most of us are just saying what

[gentoo-user] sorta OT - honest (!) opinions on mailservers - solved!!! argh!

2005-06-14 Thread Antoine
Hi, Well I was told by the techie today that we have just purchased a two-year extension to mdaemon+worldclient... and seeing as the boss is a big richard, he is not going to change any time soon. So much for wanting to save the company money! Thanks to everyone Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] sorta OT - honest (!) opinions on mailservers

2005-06-13 Thread Peter Karlsson
On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: yes, but most knowledgable people know that exim blows the pants off qmail and postfix. Ok, then perhaps you could explain why a mail server (running exim4) suddenly stops to relay emails (this worked before) and then all of a sudden

Re: [gentoo-user] sorta OT - honest (!) opinions on mailservers

2005-06-13 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Jun 13, 2005, at 1:14 PM, Peter Karlsson wrote: On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: yes, but most knowledgable people know that exim blows the pants off qmail and postfix. Ok, then perhaps you could explain why a mail server (running exim4) suddenly stops to

Re: [gentoo-user] sorta OT - honest (!) opinions on mailservers

2005-06-13 Thread Peter Karlsson
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: I would suggest you go to the very active exim-users mail list and be prepared to show your config and the log entries. You can find a link to the mail list at www.exim.org . The author of exim is very forthcoming and helpful as well

Re: [gentoo-user] sorta OT - honest (!) opinions on mailservers

2005-06-12 Thread Rumen Yotov
A. Khattri wrote: On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, Antoine wrote: I have just realised that we have a dedicated mail server - that means that there are no legacy apps tying us to the doze OS that is currently running it :-). Basically, if I can convince the techie (who is a linux user, though not a

Re: [gentoo-user] sorta OT - honest (!) opinions on mailservers

2005-06-12 Thread Antoine
Dont know about Windoze, but I work for an ISP and we use qmail + vpopmail + MySQL + Courier-IMAP + Squirrel Mail to support thousands of users. From some reading this looks like it would fit the bill. Do you know of any helpful howtos for this or similar combos? How much maintenance does it

Re: [gentoo-user] sorta OT - honest (!) opinions on mailservers

2005-06-12 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Antoine wrote: Hi, I have just realised that we have a dedicated mail server - that means that there are no legacy apps tying us to the doze OS that is currently running it :-). Basically, if I can convince the techie (who is a linux user, though not a fanatic like me ;-)) that there are free

Re: [gentoo-user] sorta OT - honest (!) opinions on mailservers

2005-06-12 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Jun 12, 2005, at 1:19 AM, Rumen Yotov wrote: Hi, Could use qmail or postfix, think none of them runs on Win. There are also eximsendmail but not as good IMHO. i use qmail. HTH. Rumen yes, but most knowledgable people know that exim blows the pants off qmail and postfix. There are

[gentoo-user] sorta OT - honest (!) opinions on mailservers

2005-06-11 Thread Antoine
Hi, I have just realised that we have a dedicated mail server - that means that there are no legacy apps tying us to the doze OS that is currently running it :-). Basically, if I can convince the techie (who is a linux user, though not a fanatic like me ;-)) that there are free alternatives to

Re: [gentoo-user] sorta OT - honest (!) opinions on mailservers

2005-06-11 Thread A. Khattri
On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, Antoine wrote: I have just realised that we have a dedicated mail server - that means that there are no legacy apps tying us to the doze OS that is currently running it :-). Basically, if I can convince the techie (who is a linux user, though not a fanatic like me ;-))