where can i find qmail for breezy?

Lee Braiden lee_b at digitalunleashed.com
Sat Aug 27 08:57:25 UTC 2005


On Saturday 27 August 2005 04:06, Alvin Thompson wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 11:41 +1000, Peter Lieverdink wrote:
> > Consider using an MTA with a less sucky license. Postfix is nice.
>
> i've used postfix as well. qmail is:
> * much, much faster
> * less resource hungry
> * generally more secure

Can't speak to any of those, except to say that FLOSS tends to have more 
people checking its code, *and* probably has more users finding bugs -- at 
least in relation to running it on common Linux machines -- so I wouldn't 
trust that assessment on security.

> * much easier to configure

Postfix is simplicity itself to configure, with debian/ubuntu debconf 
packages.

> * virtually no admin needed

You'll probably have less admin by using the best-supported mail server 
available for your distro, since other packages will work with it.

> * users can easily create as many email address as they want (without
> bothering me)

A simple cron script to cat .aliases files from the users' home directories 
into /etc/aliases would do that for you.

> * users can easily route emails to any mail folder they want
> * users can easily route their mail though spamassassin/whatever

I'm not sure how easy this is in qmail, but it's not hard with any mailserver 
that allows procmail etc., and it's starting to be done in the mail client 
itself, perhaps with the help of sieve.

> * users can easily manage mailing lists

qmail does mailing lists?  I've never seen any mailing lists that use it (at 
least, not in an obvious way).  I'd suggest going with one of the common 
mailing list programs that have modern features etc.

> * much easier to move configuration when you upgrade

Debian's packaging should upgrade for you without issues.  If not, it'll 
explain exactly what you have to do.

> anyone know of any scripts to build qmail under ubuntu?

http://www1.apt-get.org/search.php?query=qmail

-- 
Lee Braiden
http://www.DigitalUnleashed.com
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