On Sun, Aug 06, 2000 at 12:01:02AM +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> > Which mailing deamon is considered to be the best
>
> Define "best"! I use the default that Mandrake installs, postfix, but will
> replace it with exim soon. Like exim more, but they both work perfectly.
> And then there's sendmail. Quite a beast to configure IMHO. Although it is
> THE standard MTA I can't stand it. Oh, and we have qmail. Never tried it.
> I'm sure I forgot some.
Personally, I'm a huge qmail fan. I really really prefer qmail..
haivng used both sendmail and postfix, I totally prefer qmail.
You'll have to let us know how exim measures up to sendmail/postfix
although I've heard good things about it as well.
> sendmail and postfix both have a webmin configuration module, which makes
> live a little easier. about the other MTA's, I don't know.
qmail has some third-party web-based config thingies as well, I
believe. I've never had the need to use anything like that,
however.
If anyone is interested, there is an RPM for qmail at
www.freezer-burn.org/rpm.php3?rpm=qmail *however* it is currently a
little on the experimental side since qmail's distribution license
makes it very difficult to build a proper install base without
patching anything (which is against the license). Makes it a little
trickier, however the version up there should work completely as
advertised (1.03-6mdk).
The only thing I suggest against is rebuilding the source RPM at this
point until I write a new installation script (again, a limitation of
not being able to patch the installer).
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