# Should you install qmail ?
# ---------------
#
# First of all, consider these:
#
# * You have to deinstall sendmail before starting to install qmail. While
# installing
# qmail, you won't be able to do mail. Also, you will probably make quite some
# changes to your fs, which makes it hard to just give up and reinstall
# sendmail.
this is completely untrue, the docs tell you to KEEP SENDMAIL RUNNING while
you install qmail
# * Qmail is probably also more inviting to hackers, just because it's more
# human.
The 1000 dollar reward for hacking qmail was never claimed
# But here are some of the things you're going to face:
#
# - qmail doesn't do /var/spool/mail. it tries to keep
# the mailboxes in the users' homedirectories (which is better). If you want
# to do that,
# move all your mbox files to the users' homedirs .. there u go. If you don't
# want that,
# read a whole lot of docs before you install qmail.
you SHOULD read a whole lot of docs before you install qmail anyway!
# -in fact, qmail-pop3d doesn't do any mbox format, it wants
# to use the Maildir format (which really is better). If you want to use
# that, you should
# convert all your mbox files to maildirs ... someway. In the package, there
# is a tool
# supplied to do the reverse: MailDir to Mbox files :-)
#
# - qmail-pop3d doesn't work without a passwordchecker. you need to get it
# somewhere
# online and change some lines in some initfiles to get it working.
#
# If all of the above 2 things scare you, don't use qmail-pop3d...you need to
# use some
# other popdeamon and get it to cooporate with qmail. There's a techy bit ....
# And then you're not really 'running qmail', you're just using some bits of
# the qmail package. Things may get tricky when all the bugs arrive and you
# need to update.
that is complete BS
sendmail does NOT have a pop daemon, never has
POP is COMPLETELY independent of MTA
use your head
# -qmail doesn't do .forward files, it uses .qmail files (which are better).
# If you want
# to use them, edit and rename all .forward files ... ... there u go.
# There's also a patch (dotforward) for using .forward files.
dotforward works fine
# -qmail doesn't read /etc/aliases. It reads info from /var/qmail/ (which is
# better).
# ...you get the point. Yes, there is a patch (fastforward) to run if you
# want /etc/aliases.
fastforward works WONDERFULLY
# Things were still not working and I had to invent complex workarounds.
# A lot of handwork ... a week later, I had to do it all over again, to try
# and fix it.
# The users got funny errors and received all the mail they left on
# the server several times .... even on such a small system as mine,
# it was HELL.
you should install on a test box before you attempt the real thing!
that is common sense
# Sendmail, after all, was working fine.
until the next security hole is found....
