>> >Use qmail and vpopmail. They are both packaged to debian, so there should >> >not be much of a problem for it. >> >> Qmail isn't a regular package because it's got licence issues. >> > >It is in debian in source package form, it can be built with one command, >so it is not a real problem I think.
It just makes things more difficult. >> For a serious server system it will rapidly become annoying for the >> administrator because it just won't do the things you want. >> >> Try spam blocking (both ORBs and header filtering) and address re-writing for >> two things that Qmail falls down on. > >Address rewriting: look at the mess822 package on DJB's homepage, for one. >For address rewriting in messages originating on the qmail host, it is >even easier than that. You just need to wrap qmail-inject. I have done it >and it is not that hard to do. Much easier in Postfix where the functionality is built in. >> I doubt that Qmail is any more secure than Postfix. I doubt that it is any >> faster. >> > >It can be said the other way round as well. I don't personally know True. >postfix, but I don't think it would be faster than qmail. About security: >there is one thing with postfix: it is under current development, ergo it >always can contain newly introduced security holes. Of course that also You can put the package on hold so that dselect won't upgrade it... >means fast error fixes, however. Qmail is unfortunately not under visible >development, no one knows what DJB does currently with qmail. > >The licencing is the biggest drawback in qmail I think. Yes. -- My current location - X marks the spot. X X X
