VPS - SendMail Config

[George Toft]

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.

George Toft, CISSP, MSIS
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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 at 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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