On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Adam D. McKenna wrote:
> 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.
Are you like those creatures in the worm-hole on ds9?
I asked questions yesterday... I got the consulting today.
If you would like me to clarify that even more, let me know.
> 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.
We've addressed this. What do you do when the FM isn't enough?
> 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.
I am seeing this.
when is djb coming out with his own unix? Also, what is part of qmail
and what isn't? Does anyone have a list of what is "official" and what
is not? does anyone care? anyone have a list of conflicting patches?
order of installation? I mean, where does it say I have to "back out of"
tcp-env to get tcpserver running? (answer; probably no where).
Ya, I'm moving to djbware... mostly because I want to be able to
support it when people ask me about it. But you know, sendmail *is*
easier... That's not an insult -- that's just an opinion based on the
amount of documentation that's available.
Scott
