[CentOS] Kind of OT: internal imap server
Feizhou
feizhou at graffiti.net
Thu Aug 24 03:33:15 UTC 2006
Ralph Angenendt wrote:
> Jaymz Ringler wrote:
>> A simple solution if you have an extra machine.. install qmail on a
>> new box... put it into your DMZ to collect mail. You then set a
>> simple smtproute to forward all mail to your inner mail server's ip.
>
> qmail is outdated. qmail doesn't check for available users before
> accepting a mail and thus always sends bounces. qmail isn't available
> for centos. qmail hasn't seen any updates since way back when. qmail can
> only be made into a more modern MTA with tons of patches.
>
nothing beats qmail's dot-qmail delivery mechanism. I would not put
plain qmail on an mx host but I definitely would not write it off for
other mail uses.
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