> Just out of genuine curiosity, were you actually seeing problems that > required each of those patches? I've been running a > qmail/vpopmail/sqwebmail/qmailadmin setup for the past year now and have > yet to actually find need for a patch.
There's a lot of needs that plain qmail doesn't suite our needs, i can tell you someone: - spam prevention, with plain qmail do you have only badmailfrom+tcp.smtp+rbl. some patches make qmail use badmailto to filter against destination, regex in badmailfrom/badmail to block particular domain or name, tarpitting to make large-isp with a lot of ip enabled to relaying not too much vulnerable to spam. - content filtering: with qmail you cannot pass all emails to an external filter (like perl script) to customize/filter the messages. With content filter i intend virus filtering too - smtp-auth-relaying: useful for big lan with some external users - smtp-after-pop: vpopmail feature that do this is good for small traffic network, but when you have 100 or more concurrent connection to the pop3 you cannot use binary file but you must use a database. I could tell some of other needs, but i think that this is enought. Regards. -- Davide Giunchi. Membro del FoLUG (Forlí Linux User Group) - http://folug.linux.it GPG Key available on http://www.keyserver.net Fingerprint: 4BFF 2682 6A58 ECFE 071B A1A4 F2A3 9EFA 6494 81FD
