On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 11:00:29 +0530 (IST), "Animesh Bansriyar"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> 
> > we can observe here that almost all BIG installation
> > are on qmail, why exim or postfix is prefarable? (Is
> > it really preferable for a new mail server
> > installation, if started from scatch?). From this
> > discussion, can one conclude that qmail must be choice
> > of mail server out of sendmail/exim/postfix etc.
> >
> Yes qmail is a preferable Mail Server from security point of view but
> exim/postfix are easier to setup. Qmail is more difficult to setup and
> maintain and the biggest drawback is that for anything extra you need you
> have to patch qmail with third party patches. Exim and Postfix are more
> modern in design.
> 
> But Still I prefer qmail for production servers due to its sheer
> efficiency and security reasons.
> 
> For more information on qmail I would suggest
> going through http://lifewithqmail.org, http://cr.yp.to and qmail.org.
> 
> > How can we provide web based access with qmail, like
> > yahoo or homail of email provides.
> 
> I would suggest that you read more about SMTP/IMAP/POP3.
> 

Nice Qmail + webmail stuff
http://www.mrw.demon.co.uk/qmail-howto.html
http://www.euronet.nl/users/erhnam/linux/qmail/qmail.htm  <-- in dutch,
but easy to comprehend ;)
http://mirror.mricon.com/qvcs-guide/qvcs-guide.html  <-- this guid, which
i consider pretty well updated and comprehensive


Postfix docs are available at many places, the better ones are at
moongroup.org and 
http://advosys.ca/papers/

--
cheers
-- 
  Sthitaprajna
  http://puggy.symonds.net/~zeeble

-- 
http://www.fastmail.fm - Consolidate POP email and Hotmail in one place


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