[CentOS] Kind of OT: internal imap server

Rodrigo Barbosa rodrigob at darkover.org
Thu Aug 24 07:16:49 UTC 2006


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On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 03:03:39PM +0800, Feizhou wrote:
> >qmail    - (Take with a grain of salt, since I dislike dbj) A pain.
> >           It is fast and secure, as long as you use the stock
> >           package. But you will need to include several external
> >           packages to get even basic functionality, and everything
> >           about it (except SMTP protocol itself) is non standard,
> >	   and the configuration is spread between a lot of files
> >           and directories. But it really is fast (slightly faster
> >           than exim in some cases, about the same in others).
> 
> You could run qmail-smtpd out of xinetd...and run qmail without 
> daemontools and log to syslog. But if you are into djb's stuff you do 
> end up using the rest of his good stuff.

All of which has a definitive slackware flavor.

> >
> >As you can see, I use Exim so, again, take another grain of salt.
> >My current exim setup is, as far as I know, impossible to reproduce
> >with any other MTA, unless you use several external hacks (multiple
> >instances with different configurations, with port redirection, to
> >name just one).
> 
> When you say multiple instances, I assume multiple queues too?

Has to be, unless you want your queues crashing into each other.

> >But most of the time, when recomending a MTA to others, I say
> >postfix.
> 
> :D - qmail not suitable for today's Internet as an MX mta without 
> patching and sendmail a pain to learn/understand if you are not familiar 
> with m4

True, and exim, if not configured correctly, can be very slow.

- -- 
Rodrigo Barbosa
"Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur"
"Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns)

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