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
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Lee Braiden
http://www.DigitalUnleashed.com
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