-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The current beta release of Kolab has support for simple vhosting, but this version is not quite production ready.
Shawn wrote: > On Friday 12 May 2006 23:17, Brad Camroux wrote: >> No real reason other than I have the O'Reilly book on qmail and I wanted to >> give it a shot. If I'd have known how frustrating the .qmail files really >> are to understand, I would have never installed qmail in the first place. >> But it's working now (although qmail-send doesn't seem to be logging >> itself... must look into that one). > > I found qmail to be a good solution when you want a simple mail server. For > a > single domain. > > Anytime I moved beyond this criteria I ran into no end of troubles getting > things running and staying running. I eventually decided that if I have to > do that much effort anyways, I may as well use postfix with virtual hosting > because there is so much more documentation out there on it. (postfix also > fits that minimalist criteria just fine). > > Most of the problems I encountered were with setting up spam/virus filtering, > virtual domains, or remote authentication. In most cases I was able to work > out what was going on except when I hit the weird authentication problems > from remote networks. (all the resources I found suggested I had things set > right, but it still failed). > > Then I found Kolab. All those headaches went away. The only thing I had to > give up was virtual hosting. But only cuz I'm too lazy (and don't have a > need) to set this up with Kolab. The current release (unless I missed a > version or two) does not support virtual hosting itself. But I've heard you > can use Kolab as the backend to something like vpopmail. I'm also hearing > the next release will support virtual hosting. > > With Kolab, I was up and running in about 15 minutes, and have never had to > touch the server again. er, ok, I did touch it again to implement tighter > spam filtering. But that was MY choice. Not a crash that had to be fixed. > > Glad you got your qmail running though.. :) > > Shawn > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEZX2fwRXgH3rKGfMRAs+hAJ9DjQJE64tQp6X7bR+KP4ImtbU0xACfeYA9 YGKFzvEAY2p1DbK0xOG9zkQ= =9Nlp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
