From: Scott D. Yelich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Ya know.... I just got back from a new consulting job. This place paid
> someone several hundred dollars to install qmail and the person never
> did get it working -- after several WEEKs of work. I'm sure you'll be
> delighted to know that I have the job now.
Right, and just like everyone else who gets a job installing qmail, with no
prior experience, you come on the list and ask all sorts of newbie questions,
and then get upset when people tell you to read the documentation or FAQ
instead of giving you a quick answer.
I've been on this list for a little while now and although I've never actually
called rblsmtpd from itself, I've been well aware of the fact that it could be
done because I've seen people ask about it many times. The difference between
you and them is that when they asked, they asked politely, and when they were
told that the best solution was to install tcpserver, they did so instead of
insulting djb and half of the list.
The first time I encountered qmail, it was because a co-admin of a box I used
to admin had installed it in order to close our (then open) relay. I was very
frustrated at first. So I went to www.qmail.org and I read man pages for 3
hours. So when someone tells you to RTFM, it might not be because they're
trying to be hostile, but that RTFM'ing is really what you need to do in order
to start grasping the concepts that go along with this piece of radically
different software.
If you just want to run qmail as your MTA, then you can just install qmail and
run it under inetd, it will perform adequately. That's what I did at first.
But if you want a real *solution*, that maximizes performance, security, and
minimizes the strain on your system, then you will find that using an
all-djbware mail system (including tcpserver, supervise, setuser, accustamp,
cyclog, etc...) will save you a lot of headache in the long run.
--Adam
