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On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 09:45:06AM +1300, Roland Hill wrote: > -MTA (sendmail, postfix, qmail etc) to deliver > [...] > If some applications are more new user friendly than others then > please advise. I have been using qmail for sometime now, and as everyone says it is a bit odd to set up and documentation can be confusing, and it seems to work well. The only problems I have had have been someplace other than in qmail itself. So far, so good. However, I suggest you look carefully at postfix before going with qmail. I have heard it is comparable and as safe as qmail, but the real win is that I think postfix is included in RH distributions now. It is a pain to have a non-standard installation where I have to get parts from someplace else. And then when I have a problem I have to wonder whether I have the current version and did I apply that third-party patch to qmail, or was that to ezmlm...? Note that though qmail isn't that bad to install in the first place, a year from when you need to figure out something new you will be annoyed to have to remember what you got from where and where you put it. When you know you have, say, Red Hat 7.3 (a good rev, IMHO), that little "7.3" is a really nice summary of the state of your machine. Put something major like a different mta on there and you have made a major divergence that is something you then have to maintain. If postfix is as good, or nearly as good, as qmail, then I say it wins because of the more practical license. -kb, the Kent who runs qmail, ezmlm, and djbdns, and they all work and they all have that same annoying DJB license that keeps them out of all the Linux distributions. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
