[ale] email server

[stephen]

On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 07:50:22PM -0400, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> Hi Virginia,
> 
> You and my wife share the same!
> 
> Mail servers are _hard_. Under UNIX and Linux they are seriously hard.
> For the most part, distribution like RedHat have done most of the work
> and have a functional configuration. RedHat uses sendmail. It may be
> "old", but it is unbelievably capable. It is also the most terrifying
> thing to configure! To that end, there are two gui tools that do a
> pretty good job. Webmin and linuxconf. I have used both. Webmin at the
> moment seems to be a bit ahead in terms of capability. Linuxconf as
> shipped with RedHat is feeble. There is a full version from the website.
> Both can be found searching on http://freshmeat.net
> 
> There is a serious contender for MTA "alpha-geek product" in an
> application called qmail. It is much leaner than sendmail and was
> engineered from the ground up to dodge the security problems that
> plagued sendmail for a few years. The Debian distribution ships with
> qmail. There are a _bazillion_ addons available for qmail. And there are
> a few get-and-install-qmail-in-2-keystrokes scripts around as well. 
> 
> I know there is an O'Reilly book on Sendmail. While it is the definitive
> tome on sendmail, it is also the ultimate cure for insomnia! I don't
> know if there is a dead-tree guide for qmail yet.

http://www.lifewithqmail.org

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