anyone know of a doc comparing these MTAs? need to convince someone ;-) and yeah..google hasnt helped me..
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On Fri, 2002-06-21 at 16:58, kishor bhagwat wrote:
anyone know of a doc comparing these MTAs? need to convince someone ;-) and yeah..google hasnt helped me..
don't know about comparing servers, but there is nothing like qmail when it comes to ease of control and flexibility. Checkout these sites - the first one will give you a list of reasons about why qmail ..
http://cr.yp.to/ http://www.lifewithqmail.org/
Recently replaced sendmail with qmail on our new servers here. It was a breeze.
Sameer.
+++ Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe [21/06/02 19:20 +0530]:
On Fri, 2002-06-21 at 16:58, kishor bhagwat wrote:
anyone know of a doc comparing these MTAs? need to convince someone ;-) and yeah..google hasnt helped me..
For the original query: What are the requirements of the client(s)? Do they need a simple mail solution? Or do they need the groupware features (appointments et al)? An addressbook can easily be created with a LDAP based system, and postfix+courier/cyrus are good SMTP|IMAP|POP solutions.
don't know about comparing servers, but there is nothing like qmail when it comes to ease of control and flexibility. Checkout these sites - the first one will give you a list of reasons about why qmail ..
http://lifewithoutqmail.org/ http://www.exim.org
Devdas Bhagat
On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Devdas Bhagat wrote:
An addressbook can easily be created with a LDAP based system, and postfix+courier/cyrus are good SMTP|IMAP|POP solutions.
Could say the same thing for qmail ... LDAP for addressbooks, and qmail+UW-imap works very well.
http://lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html#pop-imap-servers http://www.davideous.com/imap-maildir/
And for features, and community contributed add-ons, checkout
On an aside, qmail has a built-in POP server called qmail-pop3d. But it works with Maildir delivery format only. But our sysads decided against Maildir, because it wasn't considered a good idea to deliver mail into the home of users who might accidentally delete it! Is there anyone here who actually uses Maildir?
Sameer.
On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe wrote:
On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Devdas Bhagat wrote:
An addressbook can easily be created with a LDAP based system, and postfix+courier/cyrus are good SMTP|IMAP|POP solutions.
Could say the same thing for qmail ... LDAP for addressbooks, and qmail+UW-imap works very well.
Yup..agree with that (only a different combination)...Qmail+LDAP+TLS+Courier (IMAP & POP3)...works neatly.
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Maildir, because it wasn't considered a good idea to deliver mail into the home of users who might accidentally delete it! Is there anyone here who actually uses Maildir?
Well, here I am ;) We use Maildir not only for ourselves,but for all our clients as well. The catch is, we use virtual accounts. So the maildir isn't in the user's home directory.
+++ Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe [21/06/02 23:00 +0530]:
On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Devdas Bhagat wrote:
An addressbook can easily be created with a LDAP based system, and postfix+courier/cyrus are good SMTP|IMAP|POP solutions.
Could say the same thing for qmail ... LDAP for addressbooks, and qmail+UW-imap works very well.
Until you meet mailbox corruption with mbox, and some id ten T type of person with a huge mailbox (uw-imap loads the entire mailbox into memory).
http://lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html#pop-imap-servers http://www.davideous.com/imap-maildir/
And for features, and community contributed add-ons, checkout
On an aside, qmail has a built-in POP server called qmail-pop3d. But it works with Maildir delivery format only. But our sysads decided against Maildir, because it wasn't considered a good idea to deliver mail into the home of users who might accidentally delete it! Is there anyone here who actually uses Maildir?
Maildir is safer than mbox for high loads. Oh, and postfix does both mbox and maildir. Try using a setup with maildir outside the home directories of users (aka virtual users). Courier supports this nicely, or cyrus provides a blackbox solution. And if you are supporting smtp auth, then cyrus uses the same backend (SASL) for AA.
But this is off topic for the original mail. Could we please get some input on client requirements so that a good solution can be offered.
Devdas Bhagat
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