On 25 May 00, at 21:02, ibi wrote:
>
> If I understood the discussion yesterday qmail can't be ported to
> Linux because of the language. The developer of said app flatly
> refuses to allow qmail to be adapted/adopted/ported or changed inre
> binary code.
Qmail doesn't need to be ported to Linux. It should compile out of
the box. There are Qmail rpm's on www.qmail.org, so if someone want's
a binary, they can get one. It would probably run on Mandrake, too
(perhaps after setting a symlink or two).
>
> I don't know a thing about servers, but it seems to me that if I am
> bound and determined to use qmail then I need to make the Unix based
> FreeBSD or OpenBSD my OS rather than Linux-Mandrake.
I run postfix, and I'm perfectly happy with it (except for the
Mandrake upper case letters in virtual domains bug). It should be
noted, however, that Qmail is a perfectly easy compile. Or I should
say, it was when I compiled it several years ago as a complete smtp
and GNU/Linux newbie. I ran it for a while, but in terms of
configuration, I think postfix is a bit easier.
Your mileage may vary....
-Chuck
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