Fulvio wrote:
I'm a newbie at running my own mail server (and pretty new to Linux). I really liked the Fedora/qmail combination due to the strong help available through their respective lists/newsgroups. I realize that qmail is not open source but it is free. It is easy to use. I'm told that it is highly secure. I was just looking for something easy to use with Fedora. There is an outstanding helpful web site called "Life With Qmail" at http://lifewithqmail.org/ that I used for help. I also picked up a great "how to" book for administration called "The qmail Handbook" by Dave Sill that is really handy. When I've had newbie questions I posted them on the list/newsgroup site and more than once the author of the book, Dave Sill, personally took the time to answer my questions -- I'd never experienced anything quite like that before -- it was better than any level of "paid support" I've ever encountered with any Windows based products. Dave Sill's site describes the license situation as follows:qmail is fantastic. Postfix is simple to configure
Fulvio wrote:
qmail works very well on Fedora. My Fedora/qmail mail server has been running for a few weeks now and performs well.why sendmail and not postfix?
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"The bottom line is that you *can* use /qmail/ for any purpose, you can redistribute /unmodified/ /qmail/ source distributions and qualifying /var-qmail/ binary distributions, and you can distribute patches to /qmail/. You *can't* distribute modified /qmail/ source code or non-/var-qmail/ binary distributions."
That seemed good enough for my situation although open source would be better. I'm sure all of the mail servers discussed here today are exceptional. I just wanted to put my 2 cents worth in on my personal experience with qmail.
