Amavis - Qmail -Debian

[Nancy Sollars]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig White" <craigwhite@azapple.com>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 6:33 PM
Subject: Re: Amavis - Qmail -Debian


> Nancy Sollars wrote:
> >
> > Sorry for the late reply ...
> >
> > To your question im not sure ...
> >
> > I had sendmail forwarding mail to an Exchange server things screw'd up
alot
> > .. I had to hack around alot in the sendmail.cf which most people would
say
> > forget it ...
> >
> > I would not under any circumstancies suggest using Exchange with any
Linux
> > based MTA,  Exchange does some strange stuff on its own ..
> >
> > A problem u may find is .. if u do get it up and running ,, is with the
> > notify feature that is someone puts that stupid tag of alert that the
mail
> > has been read by the recipient.  It causes no end of problems i had mail
> > bouncing around when ever anybody did this from either inside sending
out or
> > vice versa ,,
> -----------
> this is silly. mail bounces because mail and/or dns isn't properly
> configured - be it exchange/sendmail/qmail/groupwise etc. For load

BS with the DNS configuration ..

The send alert when recipient has opend the mail is an M$ idea put into
Exchange

Sendmail at the time i did this anti-virus solution did not support this M$
idea..

the exchange server was sending mail without the correct to: blah blah
header
so it was looping back to root and postmaster forever in a day because
amavis was fireing round the loop on the 1st sendmail.cf file ....

post fix and qmail under amavis i believe run 2 instancies of the mta that
work togetther to recieve the mail then check it for viruses.

the sendmail solution is simply 2 sendmail cf's one that recieves checks it
gives it back to sendmail runs the normal second cf to send the mail on its
way.

> balancing, I have a large non-profit client that has sendmail on 2
> different servers - one accepts incoming mail, one handles outgoing mail
> and all of the domain mail is forwarded to an internal Novell Groupwise
> server - all of this configured in less than 2 hours and I had
> absolutely no knowledge of Novell or Groupwise.
>
> I have no problems forwarding mail from one server to another - it is
> done all the time in large organizations and it makes sense.
>
> There are a lot of anti-virus solutions for Exchange Server and if you
> are gonna pay the money for all the Exchange Server user licenses, it
> only follows that you should purchase an Exchange compliant anti-virus
> solution.
>
> As for editing sendmail.cf - the recommended method is don't. You edit

Seems to me like youve read the Sendmail back book to much ;P

> sendmail.mc and then generate sendmail.cf files using the m4 utility. I
> used to think sendmail was complicated - it isn't. I have set up
> sendmail to handle multiple virtual domains and multiple ip addresses,
> smtp authentication (really simple) and think that it's at the very
> least - adequate.
>
> I have never set up Exchange Server and given the serviceability and
> usefulness of open source mail servers, I am quite certain that I am not
> likely to set many up but I am also certain that it is a very good mail
> server.

well we or you do not set the rules Exchange is used out there with open
sourced material so
really thats a little irrelevent

>
> All in all, I don't think the advice quoted above is very good advice.
>
> Craig

well since my advice is based on a real life scenario i guess u dont have
any grounds to judge,
since this mail was not to you personally,  I dont see why u posted any how
if you had a problem with it you could simply delete it ...

Nige

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