Oden Eriksson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Mondayen den 3 December 2001 15.23, Han wrote:
>> Oden Eriksson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

>> Being a big qmail-fan myself who prefers to do it all manually I
>> can't be of much assistance since I got it like I want it.

> You don't have the means or time to try it out?

Hmm well my qmail servers are running on OpenBSD :]

> I can asure you vpopmail and qmailadmin does a wonderful job. I have
> used this combination for a long time because it's very easy for the
> end customer.

Sounds great. I an have a look at it. I mean qmail is great except for
end users. We don't want to give the former NT-admins an excuse :D
Just a silly question, cause I could look it up. Is it _secure_?

>> But I can imagine not everybody likes to make a real study of the
>> software.

>> Btw. Have you allready had a look at this project? Seems to be less
>> risky in case of licensing situations.

>>      http://freshmeat.net/projects/qinstall/

> Yes I have, and I have also suggested something like this to dodge
> the "DJB license" for Mandrake.  Since it's the end user patching
> and compiling, it could be a way.

I fully agree to the DJB license. I mean this code has the remarkable
record of being exploit free and that is really a big achievement in
this era of computer-science. And I respect that. So lets do it his
way. Who are we to critizise this man?

qinstall seems to need python. Seems to work on OpenBSD.  nice. I
happen to trust portable code better.

Here is another one.

        http://www.qmailtheeasyway.com/

I told this author month ago that doing: rpm -q qmail is not the
smartest way to test if qmail is installed ;) Seems to have made
progress as well.

What on earth does it have to be 18.3 mb for, lets have a look.
OMG they are nuts. They even want to install rblsmtp and have ....

Ahem... never mind.

I would prefer to see a decent sh ( not bash ) script that wgets the
tarballz and just install everything according to the manual.
dependencies are gcc and groff. I see the design in my head :)


Cya, Han.

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