qmail WAS How difficult is it to run your own email server?

[JT Moree]

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Jorge Delacruz wrote:
> Please check out qmailtoaster.  It even comes in an ISO that has the

Using qmailtoaster will alleviate some of the below problems by becoming
the distro that you use.

We use qmail at work.  I dont like it for the following reasons:
* free but not Free -- license issue
** This means it's not included in any distros we use
** That means it never gets updated
** Which is no big deal because djb never updates it anyway
** But no one else is allowed to update and release binaries without his
permission
** So it's not in any of the distros we use
* does not integrate easily into runlevel/init on any system
** requires using djb's daemontools
*** daemontools is not included in any distros we use for the same
reasons qmail is not included
** requires at least one other djb tool that is not Free and has same
problems
** What does this mean really?  after all you can setup daemontools and
all the other stuff, right?
*** It means learning another system for starting and stopping the
server which you won't remember how to use every time you need it
because you rarely need to do it.

I think there is more but i'm tired of thinking right now.
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JT Morée
PC Xperience, Inc.
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