VPS - SendMail Config

[Craig White]

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?
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clarification - not compatible with GPL, cannot be distributed with GPL
packages.
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> 
> 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.
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it sort of does in my opinion.
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> 
> > 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.
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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