From: Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: mail server
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 13:33:14 +0000
Frank Elsner wrote:
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 18:16:02 +0500 azeem ahmad wrote:
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ok, its good. but whats about that popular servers, i.e. sendmail and
qmail. should these not be used? if yes. then for which reasons.
If you have never configured sendmail you are not a sys admin.
If you have configured twice you are an idiot.
Ooh, a bit harsh. Some of us (Hi Alexander!) have grown up with sendmail
and are very comfortable with it. However, it's not the easiest thing to
configure and I'd probably advocate postfix for a beginner since its
configuration is much more straightforward.
As for qmail, I wouldn't bother. Out-of-the-box it's not fit to connect to
the public Internet (it's a backscatter engine for starters), and a good
number of patches are needed to create a modern server setup. Normally this
wouldn't be a problem as you could just pick up an RPM with the necessary
patches applied, but the qmail license actually forbids the distribution of
such RPMs, so you're unlikely to find one (at least legally).
Paul.
ok
qmail is out of list n sendmail is harder to configure than postfix. well
i got another issue and that is i have to configure it in such way that
clients may access their mails though web browser, just like yahoo or gmail
Regards
Azeem
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