Re: VPS - SendMail Config

Craig White wrote:
> My opinion is that installing Qmail on a Red Hat based system is plain
> stupid since you lose all of the benefits of reasoned and maintained
> package management. Once you stray from the standard packages, you
> assume all responsibility for updating it whereas if it were a Red Hat
> system, you would merely do 'yum update' or 'up2date -u' and get all the
> updates installed.

Well, if DJB ever releases a security patch for qmail(which hasn't
happened in 8 years now) I guess I will have to deal with that. Since
DJB put up a $10k reward for someone to root a box through qmail back
then and the reward remains unclaimed I'm thinking I don't have much to
worry about in this regard.

> The packaging restrictions on Qmail are anti-GPL. 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).

MailScanner in particular, no, but content filters exist for qmail, as
do greylisting implementations. Qmails modular architecture makes it
easy to take a small piece of it out and replace it with something else
if you want.

A lot of people here seem to advocate qmail-toaster. I'd advise the OP
to investigate both lifewithqmail.org and vpopmail
(http://www.inter7.com/index.php?page=vpopmail) before making the decision.

~Ben
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