[CentOS] Kind of OT: internal imap server

Thu Aug 24 03:33:15 UTC 2006
Feizhou <feizhou at graffiti.net>

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 qmail is outdated.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.