On Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 09:47:53PM -0400, Chris Cioffi wrote:
| Hello all,
|
| I'm in the process of building a new machine. I'm switching from Mandrake
| to Debian and am also considering switching away from Qmail/vpopmail as my
| mail server. Here are my requirements.
I'll agree with both changes! I think both exim and postfix are
quality mail servers, and thus would chose one of them.
| Selected relaying. My machine currently set to mail bag for about 100+
| other domains in case the correct server is not available. These are
| currently listed in a file, although reading the list straight from DNS
| would be fine.
Both exim and postfix can certainly do this.
| Virtual domains. I host about 5 domains and would like to continue to do
| so.
Ditto.
| I *really* like Vpopmail's ability to let me login in with
| 'user@domain.com'.
Vpopmail is a POP server, right? Any POP/IMAP server will let you log
in [as any user, if you provide the right credentials].
| Also default accounts are extremely useful.
What is a "default" account? Is it a spool that receives all mail
addresed to an unknown local part? If so I've configured exim to do
this before. I presume postfix can do this as well.
| I had been playing around with the Courier system since it seemed to have
| everything I wanted, but to get the Virtual domains the way I wanted I would
| have to use Vpopmail. That means compiling the source and doing a manual
| install.
I used courier-imap for a while (since I use maildir format spools)
but I didn't like it's hard-coded paths. I now use uw-imapd and
haven't had that problem.
| I would like to not need to go outside the Debian package system. I
| really like apt-* and don't want to have to risk stuff with custom
| compiling.
Don't use qmail then! (see below on licensing)
| Other features that would be nice, but not mandatory: web based
| admin (via webmin is fine),
I know exim doesn't have any such tool because no one has yet
rewritten vim (or emacs) using cgi scripts. IOW, exim is sufficiently
complex and _flexible_ that no GUI-like tool will be able to configure
it effectively.
I don't know if postfix has web-based admin or not.
| filtering
Both exim and postfix support filtering, in different ways and at
different levels. I use exim because I want
http://marc.merlins.org/linux/exim/sa.html
and postfix doesn't support it (due to Wietse's design philosophy).
| and webmail.
SMTP (mail server) is independent from and orthogonal to IMAP/POP.
Any "mail server" (exim, postfix, qmail, sendmail, etc) "support"
webmail. The server delivers the message to the mail spool and have
nothing to do with the web at all. An IMAP or POP server can make the
messages available via a network connection. A web server can provide
a program that can either read the mail spool directly and show the
uesr the mail, or it can contact the IMAP server to show the user the
mail. On my server I have exim, uw-imapd-ssl, and squirrelmail; all
from debian packages. Personally I use mutt to read mail, and I have
it access the maildir-format folders directly. (if I could find a way
to use IMAP and select all folders the way I do with a shell command
now I would use IMAP instead)
| (All web features need to be non-PHP.)
Why? (just out of curiosity)
| I see I can actually stay with Qmail in all this, but I'm wondering if there
| is something better.
Have you read
http://www-dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de/~ma/qmail-bugs.html
or
http://cr.yp.to/qmail/dist.html
(which shows why qmail is not Free, as defined by Debian and OpenBSD)
?
This is also quite interesting :
http://www-dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de/~ma/postfix/vsqmail.html
I think both postfix and exim are much better than qmail.
| Your thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks!
HTH,
-D
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