On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 11:27:32AM +0100 or thereabouts, Paulo Araujo wrote:
> I'm using qmail for my mail server on Mandrake 7.2, but I would like to upgrade to
>MDK8.
>
> I've been reading the messages under the mailinglists newbie and expert and I find
>that it's probably advisable to do a fresh install rather then upgrading?!
>
> Installing qmail is not a task for a sunday afternoon!!! I took almost a week to
>make it work... so I would like to avoid reeinstalling it!
>
> As I find qmail more secure and faster (and other things...) then sendmail or
>postfix, wouldn't Mandrakesoft include it in their distributions?
Paulo, I don't have v8 installed yet, am waiting for the box, but why do
you find qmail faster and more secure than Postfix? I switched long ago to
Postfix, and it is very secure and fast. I had some concerns and issues on
how to do some tricky stuff, so I went on their list, and received answers
in 5 minutes, including from the author of Postifx, Weiste... could not
have been more helpful. Now, any new install, I change 4 lines of code,
and am up and running in 15 seconds. Postfix has been calculated and
demonstrated to handle mail during peak mail times at over 200 mails a
second with ease. Bottom line, I guess it is what you are comfortable
with. <g>
Regarding why you can't find qmail in the distro, this is not Mke's fault.
It is due to the author of qmail, whose license is restrictive and will not
allow it.
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Best regards,
Gary
