[Techtalk] Mailserver against Yahoo

[Kai MacTane]

At 2/18/02 09:09 PM , Carla Schroder wrote:

>qmail, which is a very nice program, is less user-friendly, and the mail 
>list is dominated by freaks, flamers, and psychotics. Requests for help 
>are flamed and reamed. The qmail list is so notorious there's even a Yahoo 
>group devoted to the Worst of qmail: 
>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/worst_of_qmail/

Ugh. I haven't been on the qmail list for a few years, but it doesn't look 
like it's changed much since I was there. While I think your description of 
the list is unnecessarily harsh, I also can't claim that it's in any way 
untrue.

However, there are some good resources for Qmail documentation out there, 
among them Dave Sill's Life With Qmail (LWQ), at www.lifewithqmail.org/. 
http://www.palomine.net/qmail/selectiverelay.html deals with the common 
problem of setting up selective relaying with Qmail.

While many of the people (more publicly) associated with Qmail are abrasive 
in the extreme, it is a very finely-crafted program. I happily use it on 
every mail server I run -- it's comfortably running email for about a 
half-dozen domains on a P75 with 64 MB of RAM, serving a whole bunch of 
mailing lists in collaboration with a slightly hacked version of Majordomo.

You may want to go ahead with Postfix. If so, fine; no pressure here. But 
you might also want to look at those Qmail docs and see if they're enough 
that you think you wouldn't need to don asbestos and deal with the Qmail 
list, and maybe give the program a try.

                                                 --Kai MacTane
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