RE: [vchkpw] Farewell
-Original Message- From: Tom Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 12:35 PM To: vchkpw@inter7.com Subject: Re: [vchkpw] Farewell On May 14, 2007, at 9:58 PM, Michael Bowe wrote: Tom Collins even popped in one day to say hello when he was on holidays in my neck of the woods (Australia). Was great to meet him in person. And it was great to meet Michael as well. Those of you who weren't using vpopmail before 2003 probably don't realize how many improvements were made back in the 5.3 days. Michael helped out considerably with documentation and making code changes to prevent buffer overflows. Take a look a the ChangeLog entries from 5.3.20 to 5.4.0 to get an idea of how much Michael helped me in improving vpopmail. LOL, I still remember back in the v3 and v4 days. :) It's incredible the changes that have been made since the late 90's when I started using qmail and vpopmail. Almost a decade later and I'm still using it...I've been hearing more and more admins moving to Postfix...what benefits does it offer over qmail? I'm not looking to start a flame-war. I'm just asking for information. And apparently there are no tools like vpopmail for Postfix...so would it make sense to fork the vpopmail project to Postfix? Or is that not a possibility? Thanks for your help Michael, and if you find a suitable replacement for vpopmail that works with postfix, let us know about it! As I said, not looking for a flame war. I've been using qmail for most almost a decade now and it's always worked well, but I'm finding more and more systems like dSPAM integrate easily into things like Postfix, but with qmail I had to do a lot of work integrating it properly (which I've done without the use of simscan...and works quite nicely) -- Tren Blackburn EOTNetworks
Re: [vchkpw] Farewell
Hi Micheal, Best of luck on your new endeavors. Also thanks for vpopmail - been using it for many years and have implemented 40+ sites with qmail+vpopmail - great suite for using virtual and multiple accounts. Best of luck. Rgds. Otto.. Michael Bowe wrote: I thought I would drop a note to the list to say farewell. Many years ago I used to own an ISP that used vpopmail+MySQL for all our email hosting. I wrote a mailserver guide which became quite popular. ( It is currently hosted at http://www.bowe.id.au/michael/isp/webmail-server.htm ) As I found vpopmail bugs or limitations I submitted patches to the developers. When vpopmail moved to sourceforge, I was given full developer access. I then spent a fair bit of time trying to improve the included documentation. I cleaned up and documented a lot of the source code. I also remember having fun cleaning up the configure script. Tom Collins even popped in one day to say hello when he was on holidays in my neck of the woods (Australia). Was great to meet him in person. My vpopmail contributions have dropped away in recent years, because my ISP was bought by a larger company and I went on to work for them. They used Postfix not vpopmail. I still tinkered with vpopmail a bit, because I had built many small vpopmail servers for customers along the way Now I am about to switch jobs and work for a new ISP, and they also use Postfix. So guess this new job will cut my final ties to vpopmail. There's no doubt in my mind that Postfix kicks some serious qmail butt. However even as a Postfix fan, I am the first to admit that vpopmail is a great set of tools for vmail style hosting. Its a shame that qmail never progressed past v1.03. Back in those days we didnt even have spam or virus problems, let alone need to worry about SMTP-AUTH, TLS etc. I'll be unsubscribing from this list a few days time. I wanted to say thanks to all the developers who have contributed to vpopmail along the way. And also a big thankyou to people who used by mailserver guide and sent me feedback over the years. Michael.
Re: [vchkpw] Farewell
On May 14, 2007, at 9:58 PM, Michael Bowe wrote: Tom Collins even popped in one day to say hello when he was on holidays in my neck of the woods (Australia). Was great to meet him in person. And it was great to meet Michael as well. Those of you who weren't using vpopmail before 2003 probably don't realize how many improvements were made back in the 5.3 days. Michael helped out considerably with documentation and making code changes to prevent buffer overflows. Take a look a the ChangeLog entries from 5.3.20 to 5.4.0 to get an idea of how much Michael helped me in improving vpopmail. Thanks for your help Michael, and if you find a suitable replacement for vpopmail that works with postfix, let us know about it! -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] Farewell
Michael, Best of luck, perhaps keep us posted where you've landed...? Take care, Dave. Michael Bowe wrote: I thought I would drop a note to the list to say farewell. Many years ago I used to own an ISP that used vpopmail+MySQL for all our email hosting. I wrote a mailserver guide which became quite popular. ( It is currently hosted at http://www.bowe.id.au/michael/isp/webmail-server.htm ) As I found vpopmail bugs or limitations I submitted patches to the developers. When vpopmail moved to sourceforge, I was given full developer access. I then spent a fair bit of time trying to improve the included documentation. I cleaned up and documented a lot of the source code. I also remember having fun cleaning up the configure script. Tom Collins even popped in one day to say hello when he was on holidays in my neck of the woods (Australia). Was great to meet him in person. My vpopmail contributions have dropped away in recent years, because my ISP was bought by a larger company and I went on to work for them. They used Postfix not vpopmail. I still tinkered with vpopmail a bit, because I had built many small vpopmail servers for customers along the way Now I am about to switch jobs and work for a new ISP, and they also use Postfix. So guess this new job will cut my final ties to vpopmail. There's no doubt in my mind that Postfix kicks some serious qmail butt. However even as a Postfix fan, I am the first to admit that vpopmail is a great set of tools for vmail style hosting. Its a shame that qmail never progressed past v1.03. Back in those days we didnt even have spam or virus problems, let alone need to worry about SMTP-AUTH, TLS etc. I'll be unsubscribing from this list a few days time. I wanted to say thanks to all the developers who have contributed to vpopmail along the way. And also a big thankyou to people who used by mailserver guide and sent me feedback over the years. Michael.
[vchkpw] Farewell
I thought I would drop a note to the list to say farewell. Many years ago I used to own an ISP that used vpopmail+MySQL for all our email hosting. I wrote a mailserver guide which became quite popular. ( It is currently hosted at http://www.bowe.id.au/michael/isp/webmail-server.htm ) As I found vpopmail bugs or limitations I submitted patches to the developers. When vpopmail moved to sourceforge, I was given full developer access. I then spent a fair bit of time trying to improve the included documentation. I cleaned up and documented a lot of the source code. I also remember having fun cleaning up the configure script. Tom Collins even popped in one day to say hello when he was on holidays in my neck of the woods (Australia). Was great to meet him in person. My vpopmail contributions have dropped away in recent years, because my ISP was bought by a larger company and I went on to work for them. They used Postfix not vpopmail. I still tinkered with vpopmail a bit, because I had built many small vpopmail servers for customers along the way Now I am about to switch jobs and work for a new ISP, and they also use Postfix. So guess this new job will cut my final ties to vpopmail. There's no doubt in my mind that Postfix kicks some serious qmail butt. However even as a Postfix fan, I am the first to admit that vpopmail is a great set of tools for vmail style hosting. Its a shame that qmail never progressed past v1.03. Back in those days we didnt even have spam or virus problems, let alone need to worry about SMTP-AUTH, TLS etc. I'll be unsubscribing from this list a few days time. I wanted to say thanks to all the developers who have contributed to vpopmail along the way. And also a big thankyou to people who used by mailserver guide and sent me feedback over the years. Michael.
Re: [vchkpw] Farewell
On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 14:58 +1000, Michael Bowe wrote: ... I'll be unsubscribing from this list a few days time. I wanted to say thanks to all the developers who have contributed to vpopmail along the way. And also a big thankyou to people who used by mailserver guide and sent me feedback over the years. Michael. Best of luck in the new job Michael and thanks for your work on the project over the years. cheers Shane (Perth, W.A.)
RE: [vchkpw] Farewell
-Original Message- From: Michael Bowe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 9:58 PM To: vchkpw@inter7.com Subject: [vchkpw] Farewell I thought I would drop a note to the list to say farewell. Many years ago I used to own an ISP that used vpopmail+MySQL for all our email hosting. I wrote a mailserver guide which became quite popular. ( It is currently hosted at http://www.bowe.id.au/michael/isp/webmail-server.htm ) As I found vpopmail bugs or limitations I submitted patches to the developers. When vpopmail moved to sourceforge, I was given full developer access. I then spent a fair bit of time trying to improve the included documentation. I cleaned up and documented a lot of the source code. I also remember having fun cleaning up the configure script. Tom Collins even popped in one day to say hello when he was on holidays in my neck of the woods (Australia). Was great to meet him in person. My vpopmail contributions have dropped away in recent years, because my ISP was bought by a larger company and I went on to work for them. They used Postfix not vpopmail. I still tinkered with vpopmail a bit, because I had built many small vpopmail servers for customers along the way Now I am about to switch jobs and work for a new ISP, and they also use Postfix. So guess this new job will cut my final ties to vpopmail. There's no doubt in my mind that Postfix kicks some serious qmail butt. However even as a Postfix fan, I am the first to admit that vpopmail is a great set of tools for vmail style hosting. Its a shame that qmail never progressed past v1.03. Back in those days we didnt even have spam or virus problems, let alone need to worry about SMTP-AUTH, TLS etc. I'll be unsubscribing from this list a few days time. I wanted to say thanks to all the developers who have contributed to vpopmail along the way. And also a big thankyou to people who used by mailserver guide and sent me feedback over the years. Michael. Thank you for all you've done for the vpopmail community over the years. I'm sorry to see you go, but glad it's for bigger and better things. Warmest Regards and Best wishes, Tren Blackburn EOTNetworks Vancouver, Canada
