On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 04:42:33PM +0000, Nasimuddin Ansari wrote: > we can observe here that almost all BIG installation > are on qmail, why exim or postfix is prefarable? (Is
Not true, some big installation too have postfix. I will not consider exim much. > 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. I would strongly recommend qmail. Listen, qmail has a very strong philosophy about mailing and if you sit back and think about it, you will find that the author is right about most of things. It is much secure and easy to install a server which does not provide all solutions out-of-box. e.g. in a normal office, you do not need pop-before-smtp or smtp-auth, you can just have ip based relaying. So, no need to have these codes included by the mail server. If you want this functionality the code is available (third party, but audited). An analogy would be if I wanted to display logs on my webserver, would I install apache just for that? No, I will be using some small webserver. Similarly, I would never use proftpd or wuftpd for simple ftp. If you are taking on a larger scale then you would need to recompile the code and patch it. If you cannot do that then you have no business to run a mail server. Sorry, qmail won't give an out-of-box pack for that. I rather depend on few hundred thousand lines of securly written and easy to use program than a big boalty package which has/had security holes but provides all functionality. > How can we provide web based access with qmail, like > yahoo or homail of email provides. Easy, use squirrelmail, horde, twig etc. -Payal -- "Visit GNU/Linux Success Stories" http://payal.staticky.com Guest-Book Section Updated. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
