Subject: RE: The Verdict Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 09:47:05 -0600 Message-ID: <39CF78DBFE15E141A9FE7DE61AE74D1C065645@ctbs-hq1.hq.ctbs.net> From: "Brian Densmore" <DensmoreB@ctbsonline.com>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lucas Peet [mailto:lpeet@eccod.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 9:16 AM
> To: kclug@kclug.org
> Subject: The Verdict
>
>
> Ok, here's the verdict. First of all, could someone forward
> me the any
> emails that were replied to the email I sent last night?
No one replied
> Qmail
> SUCKS. They say it's "easier to configure" than sendmail?!
> Not hardly!
> The installation is EXTREMELY involved, and frankly won't work
> on Redhat 7.2. I tried
> *everything*. ...
> this would have been
> completely UNACCEPTABLE. It still is, since
> I still consider myself and my wife users.
>
> If any of you have *successfully* gotten Qmail installed on
> RedHat 7.2 PLEASE let me know, and teach me your dark magic (since it
> appears as that's what it takes!)!!!
>
> <sigh> What a worthless ordeal.
>
>
I'm not surprised. Since RedHat 7.2 is basically broken, IMHO. They have
taken Linux and reconfigured the He__ out of it. This is why we really
need to support the LSB team. People need to be able to pull down a
Linux application and be able to make it run on any Linux system. Let me
ask a stupid question here. The RPM was made for RedHat version 7.2
right? Also from your description it sounds like a rights issue, and not
necessarily an install issue.
I am installing qmail on my server, but it won't help you since the
system is being built from scratch. I didn't find sendmail difficult to
configure, as long as I had the 1000+ page reference book handy. ;)
Brian
I used to be one of those "if all else fails read the book" people, now
I'm a "before doing anything else read the book" people. The result of
too many 18+ hour days on a weekend trying to make something work.