Hi Will --
We switched to Courier (http://www.courier-mta.org/) several years back, having used qmail before that. We've found that it suites our needs very well. It behaves a lot like qmail with respect to .qmail files and its control files, and avoids many of the issues (both technical and otherwise) with (an unpatched) qmail.
It's even possible to run ezmlm-idx for inbound mail under Courier; one does have to do an install of qmail for outbound stuff. (Make sure to add smtproute info into qmail so it doesn't attempt local delivery for outbound messages that are local.) Having qmail for outbound ezmlm stuff has the side benefit of creating a second queue, so that normal Courier users don't have their messages competing with the list traffic.
best, Jeff
On Feb 5, 2007, at 8:05 PM, Will McDonald wrote:
On 05/02/07, Jim Perrin jperrin@gmail.com wrote:
IIRC correctly, this is the (in)famous errno problem. It
requires a patch to
put qmail at 1.03. Life with qmail has all the instruction you
need to patch
and install qmail. There's a script to do it all for you. Qmail
is really
straight forward provided you follow the install directions to
the letter.
Once you do, you'll have the best SMTP server running.
*COUGH*
<flame war> So... the patch upgrades qmail to postfix?
/runs
Meeeoow! :)
I HAVE to run Qmail because it's a legacy requirement. If I could find something with similar virtual domain and Maildir support (and for all I know Postfix or Exim may provide these) and a nice transition path I'm stuck with it.
And let me throw in to the ring, there's a nicely RPM packaged Qmail package conglomerate at http://www.qmailtoaster.com/ And we all know that packages are the way ahead, right? :)
Complete with CentOS instructions http://www.qmailtoaster.com/centos/cnt40/EZ-QmailToaster- CentOS-4.3.txt
Personally, I hack around with the SPECs before building to strip out the MySQL and other features and just use Qmail listening on localhost only for the very final Maildir delivery after messages have been dealt with by MailScanner and Sendmail, then Courier and VPOPMail for POP3 and IMAP.
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