[ale] SMTP Servers

Andrew Newton anewton at ecotroph.net
Tue Dec 31 15:51:30 EST 2002


Those familiar with Qmail want to take a look at Courier 
(http://www.courier-mta.org).  It is Qmail inspired and very complete. 
Supports STARTTLS, Maildir, multiple authentication methods, mailing 
list manager, anti-spam features, etc...

-andy

John Councilman wrote:
> Bernstein in famous for being hard headed... That is why Qmail seems
> stagnant.  Bernstein believes that his code is perfect.  When installing
> qmail, you have to apply a good deal of patches to make it ready for
> production (Example: The famous "AOL Patch")
> 
> 
> Ezmlm is in the same boat as Qmail, being a Bernstein product, he
> believes that it is perfect.
> Ezmlm-idx is an offshoot of ezmlm which has some added features, but it
> seems as if the page (www.ezmlm.org) has disappeared.
> 
> When you deal with Dan Bernstein's products, you learn to deal with his
> hard headiness and just apply patches from people.
> 
> That is the biggest drawback to using Qmail in my opinion.
> 
> 
> John
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-admin at ale.org [mailto:ale-admin at ale.org] On Behalf Of attriel
> Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 2:35 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: RE: [ale] SMTP Servers
> 
> 
> 
>>Currently I am running qmail on a 60,000 user email system with no 
>>problems whatsoever.
> 
> 
> I use qmail at the office b/c i wanted ezmlm (the major was completely
> inadequate :/) (i picked ez b/c ale used it and so i looked into it :)
> i didn't know any other names, so it seemed like a good way to at least
> find things to look at).  But what I can't figure out is if EZMLM or
> QMail are still being developed, or if they're stagnating?
> 
> I had to install postfix one afternoon and it only took about 30 minutes
> or so to figure out how to configure it (not fully configured, and
> mostly I was trying to fix another install, so that time may vary a
> lot).  it definitely looked easier to setup than Sendmail.
> 
> Sendmail has, typically, provided the most power, but at the expense of
> sticking your hands into a blender most of the time :/
> 
> --attriel
> 
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