The Verdict

[Brian Densmore]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lucas Peet [mailto:lpeet at eccod.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 9:16 AM
> To: kclug at 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.