Comments on: Adjusting to QMail http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2004/07/31/adjusting-to-qmail/ News, opinion, and fresh thinking for web developers and designers. The official podcast of sitepoint.com. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:06:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: varad http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2004/07/31/adjusting-to-qmail/#comment-8764 varad Thu, 15 Sep 2005 10:50:26 +0000 1088072293#comment-8764 how to control individual users sending mails to an outside server how to control individual users sending mails to an outside server

]]> By: Skie http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2004/07/31/adjusting-to-qmail/#comment-4786 Skie Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000 1088072293#comment-4786 <p>Qmail is a very nice system. I've used it on several platforms with hardly an issue. </p> <p>Hardly because, while it's certainly very nice if you only want POP3, but since it doesn't conform to sendmail 'standards' as well as something like postfix, using qmail with IMAP servers is slightly more challanging. Theres usually some workaround that you have to find to make everything work properly... not impossible, but a minor pain. The benifits of qmail (secure, fast, simple) outweigh this pretty significantly though. </p> <p>Life with QMail (http://www.lifewithqmail.org) is another incredible resource that tells nearly everything you could ever want to know (note it is not by the author, which in some cases is a good thing).</p> Qmail is a very nice system. I’ve used it on several platforms with hardly an issue.

Hardly because, while it’s certainly very nice if you only want POP3, but since it doesn’t conform to sendmail ’standards’ as well as something like postfix, using qmail with IMAP servers is slightly more challanging. Theres usually some workaround that you have to find to make everything work properly… not impossible, but a minor pain. The benifits of qmail (secure, fast, simple) outweigh this pretty significantly though.

Life with QMail (http://www.lifewithqmail.org) is another incredible resource that tells nearly everything you could ever want to know (note it is not by the author, which in some cases is a good thing).

]]> By: cyberlot http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2004/07/31/adjusting-to-qmail/#comment-4787 cyberlot Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000 1088072293#comment-4787 <p>I have used sendmail, qmail and postfix..</p> <p>Sendmail -> qmail<br /> Qmail was like 5x quicker, easier to manage<br /> Qmail -> Postfix<br /> Postfix was like 2x quicker, a little harder to manage..</p> <p>Overall if your a small shop looking for good performance and easy to use I would suggest qmail.. If you need pure performance postfix is your friend.</p> I have used sendmail, qmail and postfix..

Sendmail -> qmail
Qmail was like 5x quicker, easier to manage
Qmail -> Postfix
Postfix was like 2x quicker, a little harder to manage..

Overall if your a small shop looking for good performance and easy to use I would suggest qmail.. If you need pure performance postfix is your friend.

]]> By: xiberk http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2004/07/31/adjusting-to-qmail/#comment-4788 xiberk Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000 1088072293#comment-4788 <p>For those looking to install a Qmail "Toaster" (complete email/webmail/antivirus/antispam/etc) system on FreeBSD, check out <a href="http://www.thenetworkpeople.biz/internet/mail/toaster/"> Mail::Toaster</a>. It is a very mature, and robust open source installer with much community and for-pay support available.</p> For those looking to install a Qmail “Toaster” (complete email/webmail/antivirus/antispam/etc) system on FreeBSD, check out
Mail::Toaster. It is a very mature, and robust open source installer with much community and for-pay support available.

]]> By: datad http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2004/07/31/adjusting-to-qmail/#comment-4789 datad Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000 1088072293#comment-4789 <p>Qmail is workable if you are willing to start a career in Qmail. If you want to get a mail server up and running without a lot of confusion, Postfix is better as it requires very little configuration to start working. Qmail has a host of utilities with such incredibly poor documentation that you really need a degree in astrophysics to make it work. The utilities are named poorly, described poorly and examples? Forget it. Go with Postfix, you'll actually get things working.</p> Qmail is workable if you are willing to start a career in Qmail. If you want to get a mail server up and running without a lot of confusion, Postfix is better as it requires very little configuration to start working. Qmail has a host of utilities with such incredibly poor documentation that you really need a degree in astrophysics to make it work. The utilities are named poorly, described poorly and examples? Forget it. Go with Postfix, you’ll actually get things working.

]]> By: Lucas Chan http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2004/07/31/adjusting-to-qmail/#comment-4790 Lucas Chan Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000 1088072293#comment-4790 <p>Nice little tool I found for handling Qmail queues.</p> <p><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/qmhandle">qmHandle</a></p> Nice little tool I found for handling Qmail queues.

qmHandle

]]> By: andre http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2004/07/31/adjusting-to-qmail/#comment-4791 andre Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000 1088072293#comment-4791 <p>well you don't really need a degree in astrophysics to get qmail to work...it's just *different*</p> <p>in the same way that DJBDNS is different from BIND, qmail is different from sendmail and postfix</p> well you don’t really need a degree in astrophysics to get qmail to work…it’s just *different*

in the same way that DJBDNS is different from BIND, qmail is different from sendmail and postfix

]]> By: sweatje http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2004/07/31/adjusting-to-qmail/#comment-4792 sweatje Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000 1088072293#comment-4792 <p>One of the issues that led me to select qmail as a mail server is security, which suprisingly was not mentioned in the article or anyones followup comments. This insistance on security is one of the issues that complicates the install and makes things different. Qmail's author had a $500 bounty for anyone who could show a secuity bug in qmail. After 5 years or so, he recinded the offer and donated the prize to the FSF.</p> <p>I host qmail on Gentoo, and use Mozilla Thunderbird to access over secure IMAP. Works like a charm, and much simpler to get running and maintain than my earlier sendmail attempts. </p> <p>Here is a great link: <a href="http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/qmail-howto.xml">http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/qmail-howto.xml</a></p> <p>Qmail comes highly recommended by me.</p> One of the issues that led me to select qmail as a mail server is security, which suprisingly was not mentioned in the article or anyones followup comments. This insistance on security is one of the issues that complicates the install and makes things different. Qmail’s author had a $500 bounty for anyone who could show a secuity bug in qmail. After 5 years or so, he recinded the offer and donated the prize to the FSF.

I host qmail on Gentoo, and use Mozilla Thunderbird to access over secure IMAP. Works like a charm, and much simpler to get running and maintain than my earlier sendmail attempts.

Here is a great link: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/qmail-howto.xml

Qmail comes highly recommended by me.

]]> By: user42 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2004/07/31/adjusting-to-qmail/#comment-4793 user42 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000 1088072293#comment-4793 <p>dovecot (http://www.dovecot.org) is quite a nice (and <b>fast</b>) imap server that works very well with qmail.<br /> </p> dovecot (http://www.dovecot.org) is quite a nice (and fast) imap server that works very well with qmail.

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