That brings up a good point. When I compiled qmail on a VPS, it started
failing. Turned out I did not have enough capacity. $150 later, I had
a bigger VPS and all went well.
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keith smith wrote:
> You both make a lot of good points.
>
> I've read tons of good things about Qmail and PostFix. I can't recall
> now but I seem to have read Qmail was top gun.
>
> The problem with Qmail is it is hard to configure. As it was explained
> the Toaster can lead Grandma to success. That is what I need!
>
> I wonder what my hosting provider is going to do if I launch what was
> explained as a 4 hour compile and I would figure longer on a VPS.
>
> I would like to try the Qmail install because it seems almost simple
> after looking at the Toaster.
>
> The turn side is do a few yum commands and figure out how to configure
> PostFix and I'm done in an hour or two.
>
> Any simple PostFix Grandma walk throughs?
>
> Thanks a bunch for all the feed back.
> Keith
>
>
> */Craig White <craigwhite@azapple.com>/* wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 19:38 -0700, Eric "Shubes" wrote:
>
> > > The packaging restrictions on Qmail are anti-GPL.
> >
> > Of course they're non-GPL, but anti-GPL? What the heck is
> anti-GPL? How
> > can a license be anti-GPL?
> ----
> clarification - not compatible with GPL, cannot be distributed with GPL
> packages.
> ----
> >
> > They are what they are. That's DJB's call. I don't necessarily agree
> > with his philosophies, but that doesn't diminish the quality of the
> > software.
> ----
> it sort of does in my opinion.
> ----
> >
> > > The mechanics of Qmail
> > > don't allow easy integration of really nice mail server add-ons
> such as
> > > greylisting and content scanning (MailScanner comes to mind here).
> >
> > I wouldn't try to tackle qmail in and of (by) itself, but the qmail
> > toaster is pre-integrated with many desirable add-ons, and it's also
> > preconfigured and tested. No need to assemble the pieces. That
> feature
> > alone was a significant factor to me.
> ----
> MailScanner is brilliant and it isn't available as part of Qmail or
> toaster, nor is greylisting. Heck, greylisting skims 70-95% of the spam
> off the top before you ever bother doing SMTP/DNSRBL/virus/spam checks
> and considerably lightens the mail load.
>
> Craig
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