Recently, Somebody Somewhere wrote these words
> I'm curious as I was recently considering replacing an existing
> sendmail based system and given the pain of setting it up the first
> time I'm considering alternatives.
>
> What is the downside of qmail? Why the "all or nothing" philosophy?
>
> I'm looking for something that I can easily deal with virtual users on
> multiple domains, starttls (which I understand is the way to go for
> remote authentication while travelling), imap, and to a lesser degree
> pop.
>
> According to the webpages I read qmail seemed to be well regarded
> (especially for a hacker proof arch), what am I missing?
>
> Thanks Steve
You need to know that DJB is the most opinionated <expletive deleted> on
the face of the planet. He is a technical wizard, a cryptologist and
meglomaniac. The documents are next to useless, and the thing can be a
trouble to work with. His man pages were written by others, who make
them available, and they are spartan. Reading your way out of trouble
doesn't always work with him. For example, in qmail each user has a
~/.qmail file which controls delivery. There is a patch to make qmail
look at the $QMAILQUEUE variable instead of using qmail-queue so you can
work with spamassassin. I failed totally to make spamassassin work with
qmail, despite all the docs out there.
If you do go for qmail, use netqmail-1.05, the agreeably patched version
of qmail-1.03. The guy doesn't accept patches - even the ones his stuff
needs. One in particular relates to a coding bug, IIRC. He won't even
patch that.
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With best Regards,
Declan Moriarty.
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