On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 07:02:36AM -0700, Pete wrote: > On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 02:36:49PM +0100, Peter Stuge wrote: > > I prefer qmail which is also the origin of the Maildir format. > > http://cr.yp.to/qmail.html or http://qmail.org/ > > > Actually, that leads to another question.
Great. I'll keep the mailing list included, since I think this belongs there anyway. > Any thoughts on a lightweight mailserver that would work hand in hand > with bincimap? Lightweight and mailserver don't really go very well together, but I think qmail is what you're looking for. :) There are of course lots of other mail servers, I did a survey back in 1999 when I wanted to move from sendmail. I remember looking at postfix, zmail, smail, qmail and probably some others I've forgotten. I settled with qmail and have never looked back. I'm very happy with it. Oh, and I still run the same version I installed in 1999 too, which says a lot about code quality. > I have heard Qmail is ugly to configure....especially for someone > with my knowledge. I don't think qmail is at all ugly to configure. I think people overreact to the slightly different way of configuration, but I for one think that e.g. Binc's configuration is uglier. This is highly subjective though. :) > Postfix has served me well but wondering if it > is not overkill for what I have. The benefit of open source. You can learn how to use really powerful tools in your own home! The best way to find out which mail server you prefer is to try a couple of different ones. Now that you know postfix, why not give qmail a spin? :) //Peter
