On Fri Feb 23, 2001 at 10:51:25AM -0800, Joe Burks wrote:
> 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.
qmail builds just fine under 7.2, if you build from source or from my
srpms. The more popular Bruce Guenter's (sp?) rpms are a little
quirky and I don't like them at all (plus there's a bunch of patches
in there I neither want nor need). So I built my own rpm which
conforms to djb's license and can be freely distributed in binary
form... www.freezer-burn.org/qmail.php or
www.freezer-burn.org/rpm-c.php?rpm=qmail will get you to them (plus
rpms for most of the associated qmail tools).
I have used postfix only once, and that was the default. When I tried
configuring it for what I wanted, I found it more difficult to
configure than qmail. qmail is the easiest MTA to install and
configure (and maintain!) if you can wrap your mind around a
completely different way of configuring than your typical .cf files in
postfix/sendmail.
> 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.
Don't do the work... I already did it and use it on all my machines
(about 7 mandrake machines ranging from cooker to Corporate Server
1.0.1). It works flawlessly on each one.
www.freezer-burn.org/qmail.php
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