I'm thinking it should be a lot faster than that. Setting up qmail should be at most 30 min of work if it's just doing a single domain, POP3, no filtering. I think the original qmail 1.03 sources don't build anymore on modern linux systems but Russ & Charles & pals have created netqmail 1.04 which is a patched version of 1.03 with a few bug fixes and support for newer Linux versions. I wonder if this is where you vendors hangup is or if they are doing something unpleasant like installing qmail from RPM.
From the sounds of it you may have 2 or 3 hours of work all said but 8 is really pushing it. Jeff On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 03:07:49PM -0700, Mike Doran wrote: > How long should it take to set up a new Red Hat Enterprise ES server in an > existing network running RH 6.2? The existing server runs our accounting > system and e-mail for 16 - 20 people. The replacement machine will be doing > the same and no more. > > The vendors of the new machine (and operating system) have been at it close > to 8 hours and now proclaim there is an incompatibility of the "old" qmail > system with the new Red Hat ES. > > Has anyone experience in this? > > It is very disheartening to see the boss pay thousands of $$ for new > equipment and operating systems only to find the vendor to be a putz. > > > Mike Doran > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > -- Jeff Clement http://jclement.ca
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