> 
> Le 11/06/2003 11:48, « Anton Piatek » <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit :
> 
> > On that note, i want to do the same...
> > 
> > are there any easier alternatives to sendmail that are easier to set
> > up, and still reliable?
> 
> You could take a look at qmail http://www.qmail.org/top.html
> 
> It's not exactly "easy" to set up, but following the very clear steps
> in David Sill's "Life with Qmail" it's definitely do able. 
> http://www.lifewithqmail.org/ 
> The first time I did it - it took half a day.  I've set up several
> now, and it usually takes about 45 minutes.
> 
> Qmail is very secure.  There is a standing offer from the developer to
> pay a reward to anyone who could find a security flaw - none have ever
> been found. It's also quite small and uses minimal resources, but can
> handle heavy traffic.  

(steps on to soapbox and clears throat)

There are, however, a couple of things about qmail that makes it less
than desirable. First of all, it uses inodes on the file system as
message-IDs. This means that you can't move the directory which holds
the mail waiting to be processed (usually not a problem, but when it
bites you it really hurts), and queue-IDs will not stay unique, which
makes the log files rather difficult to read (as if they weren't cryptic
enough already(what's wrong with human-readable timestamps in log
files?)). When googling for it I found the following comparison of logs
on common MTAs, so you can see for yourselves:
<URL:http://download.logreport.org/pub/current/doc/user-manual/ch10.htm
l#id2875915>

Second, it's composed of (IIRC) eight or nine different binaries, each
with their own configuration file and running as three or four different
users and three or four different groups. IMNSHO this makes debugging
and finding errors in your configuration more difficult that it should
have to be. Also, it takes some time to remember which config-file each
of the settings are in.

Personally, I switched from Qmail to Exim (www.exim.org) a while ago,
and I've never really looked back. Also, the author of Exim is
helpful, friendly and pragmatic, which is not the least important
aspects of an open source-project as far as I'm concerned.

(steps down from soapbox)

But yes, Qmail _is_ secure. And fast. But I would never call it easy to
set up. To answer the original poster's question, there's a tool called
redhat-switchmail which makes the transition from Sendmail to Postfix
rather smooth (or so I've heard, I've never tried it myself). My
recommendation is to try that first, unless you're going to set up an
advanced and/or high-volume mail server, in which case you probably
should make some more research on what will suit you best.

-- 
 - håkon


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