Re: Mail Server?
Mark Eichin wrote:
>
> > I was surprised that no one was really pushing qmail or sendmail.....
>
> Why were you surprised? qmail, while useful, isn't DFSG-free. And
> sendmail is pretty much a legacy system :-) (Although in theory it
> has improved, the phrase "a security hole you could drive a sendmail
> through" is still common jargon...)
qmail can be annoying if you just want to configure your server and
forget it exists. If I had a company with thousands of employees and
severe scalability, dns, and improperly configured recipient servers
were hourly problems, qmail would probably be on my list. That whole
custom file system thing turns out to be really annoying at the very
worst moments, however. Exim works great and I don't have to switch
my brain to `genius' to configure it. Sendmail, well geez, have you
ever tried to configure sendmail? Eric should be shot for the
billions of hours of system administrator time over the years that
have been wasted trying to configure sendmail. Sure, there is a nifty
program that helps you configure it now, but, too little, too late, I
say. Smail, I haven't used but it looks reasonable, and I haven't
heard anything [credible] bad about it.
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