Probably not what most people wanted to hear, but...
I spent the better part of one evening trying to get qmail 1.03 working on
LM 7.2 with no luck. Qmail tends to be particularly difficult to install,
which is almost certainly the reason it isn't more widely accepted. I've
installed qmail many times on LM 7.0 and earlier (and on RedHat too), so I
don't think that it is just that I'm clueless when it comes to qmail. My
stance on qmail is: pain to install but once installed it runs flawlessly
as long as you don't touch it. Qmail has been on version 1.03 for a rather
long time because it just hasn't needed an update. It's secure, fast,
stable and complete. Qmail comes with a pop server, unlike postfix and
unlike many pop servers it supports Maildir/ format.
The problem I finally determined on 7.2 was that the RPM I had built (I
think qmail only comes as a source RPM) wanted to create groups in the 80+
range, and those were already taken. My next step was to go in and edit
those scripts to use a different range, but I never got back to it. I
decided to use postfix instead since I was relatively certain that postfix
worked with 7.2 (Unless you got the download edition of 7.2, in which case
ipop3d is broken).
If I ever do get a Qmail RPM built that installs on LM 7.2, I will let
everyone know.
At 01:20 AM 2/23/01 -0500, Tom Kazinci wrote:
>Greetings! I would absolutely love to hear some insights about qmail on
>Mandrake?
>
>Please forward any comments at all..
>
>Thanks.
>http://www.qmail.org/top.html
>
