As a personal note, I apologize for my last posting chewing out someone
for sending an unsubscribe request to the list. It was a personal email
which I inadvertently posted to the list.
For anyone wondering how to get off this list, just send a friendly email
to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or send a rude note about how
terrible Qmail is. Doesn't matter what you say, as long as you say it to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Well my answer to this is "don't use qmail"<<
This note from Patrick intrigued me. It intrigued me because I remember
myself being so frustrated with Qmail, I cursed and said "The only reason
I am using Qmail is because it is too hard to switch over to something
else." There were times when I wanted to scream in frustration.
One exmaple: What happens to qmail-smtpd if qmail-queue does not have the
correct suid permissions? The helpful error message 'unable to open qq'
comes up. I finally resolved this by reading the source code of qmail,
which, to address another of Patrick's concerns, was fairly easy to read.
After using Qmail for four years, I have gotten to the point that I know
the big gotchas. (The other big gotcha is that qmail binaries have the
uids of the qmail users hard coded in them.)
I hope Patrick finds what he is looking for. He mentioned Postfix--maybe
this will meet his needs better. I know that Qmail, whicle being very
powerful, is not the easiest MTA to get used to. My main qualm with
Postfix is that it is not flexible enough to work with the program I wrote
and have up at http://kiwispam.sourceforge.net. Postfix only has a single
"umbrella" or "default" address per virtualdomain, and does not have "plus
addressing".
- Sam
