The Verdict
Gerald Combs
gerald at ethereal.com
Wed Mar 13 15:34:14 CST 2002
I administered sendmail for about 10 years. Then I went with postfix.
On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, hanasaki wrote:
> I looked at sendmail and the 2 or three volumes that Oreily has. Then I
> went with exim.org
>
> Lucas Peet wrote:
> > Ok, here's the verdict. First of all, could someone forward me the any
> > emails that werereplied to the email I sent last night? My email has been down, and I
> > didn't get them.
> > Qmail
> > SUCKS. They say it's "easier to configure" than sendmail?! Not hardly!
> > The installation isEXTREMELY involved, and frankly won't work on Redhat 7.2. I tried
> > *everything*. Wentthrough like 5 different tutorials, each describing the install a slightly
> > different way. Ibuilt it from source, SRPMS, and pre-compiled RPMS. None of it worked. I
> > take that back, I didactually have it working for about 30 min, but only if I started it
> > manually (unacceptable)and could not get it to startup by itself (or on system start). Once I
> > had it running though, Iwas able to create a folder, drop a mail item in it, and create a folder
> > underneath it (one of thefeatures I was looking for).
> >
> > I tried for HOURS to get this thing to work - and finally gave up
> > at 1:30am. As far as ease of configuration, as far as I'm concerned,
> > Sendmail whips it. Thismorning, I threw in my RH7.2 CD, installed from RPM sendmail and
> > sendmail-cf, edited mysendmail.cf, adding two Cwdomain.com lines, and changed the listen port
> > address from127.0.0.1 to my IP. Then, with a simple "/sbin/service sendmail start",
> > BINGO. Instantemail. Send and receive. Closed relay. Everything all set.
> >
> > Qmail documentation sucks.
> > Go to the Qmail site. Everything is all spread out, there seems to be no
> > "standard" place for itall. Sure, you can get the tarball from there, but that's all.
> > Additional libraries arespread out over links that look like "Someone J. Else's site with RPMS
> > click here", and none ofit is up to date (most is YEARS old).
> >
> > A google search pulls up the same tuts on different
> > sites, no help at all. I'm sure Qmail is great and all (otherwise I
> > probably wouldn't have evenconsidered moving to it) but as far as (quoted from the Qmail home
page)
> > "making Sendmailobsolete"?!? SOMEONE's on crack!
> >
> > I might give it a go, and change my stance on this
> > sometime, possibly in the near future, but I'm not going to get into it
> > without some help.Going into this, I EXPECTED it to work (as I have come to do with just
> > about all Linux software Iinstall - it's high quality stuff!) and have my email system down for
a
> > max of 30 min or so. 30 minturned into 13.5 hours, and if I had any real users on my system
> > (especially ones who send memoney!) this would have been completely UNACCEPTABLE. It still is,
since
> > I still considermyself 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 ittakes!)!!!
> >
> > <sigh> What a worthless ordeal.
> >
> > -Lucas
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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