Qmail: There are great alternatives [LWN.net]

Qmail: There are great alternatives

Posted May 27, 2004 8:18 UTC (Thu) by stuart (subscriber, #623)
Parent article: Movable type and "almost free" software

Well Exim works damn well and is GPL. The power (and more) of sendmail but with a configuration file. :-)

For people who can't cope with exim / don't need its advanced features I am sure postfix will do although postfix's license seems a little iffy too.

Stu.

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Qmail: There are great alternatives

Posted May 27, 2004 8:58 UTC (Thu) by alspnost (guest, #2763) [Link]

Well Stu, you beat me to it. I would also recommend Exim, and nope, it's not because I'm down the road from where it's developed ;-)

Thus far, I've been able to avoid ever having to configure Sendmail. Hopefully, I can continue this course, thanks to Exim primarily. I'm actually delaying taking my LPI level 2 exams in the hope that the syllabus will be updated to cover alternative MTAs. Please, don't make me do Sendmail!

Anyway, I didn't actually realise that qmail was in that rather perilous state - I haven't looked at it for ages. So, when the time comes to change, it's got to be Exim....

Sendmail isn't that bad, also mt users: check out wordpress

Posted May 27, 2004 11:16 UTC (Thu) by fredrik (subscriber, #232) [Link]

Alspnost,

First, let me say that Sendmail really isn't all that bad as the rumor makes it out to be. The thing to remember is to use m4 to generate the configuration files, instead of trying to hand carve obscure instructions directly. Really, I started out with linux using sendmail and it wasn't until I moved to debian that I also moved to Exim.

Secondly, for all movable type users out there, let me recommend wordpress as a way to move to open source. It's rather automagic to install, and I've heard rumors of a script that can import mt posts to wordpress.

/ Fredrik

Sendmail isn't that bad, also mt users: check out wordpress

Posted Jun 3, 2004 10:44 UTC (Thu) by ingvar (guest, #1530) [Link]

Erm, surely introducing the m4 mess only made sendmail harder to configure? I could (while jacked up on enough caffeine and well-immersed-enough in line noise) write and make sense of sendmail.cf but no end of assorted tricks have managed to make me happy I understand of the m4 files actually work. Back when I had to maintain a sendmail.cf using the m4 files, I did the sensible thing and frobbed around in the m4, checking the config by reading the raw .cf file and frobbing again, if needed.

Sendmail cf files

Posted May 28, 2004 2:12 UTC (Fri) by LinuxLobbyist (guest, #6541) [Link]

Thus far, I've been able to avoid ever having to configure Sendmail. Hopefully, I can continue this course, ... Please, don't make me do Sendmail!

Awe, come on, now! I do ALL of my programming in sendmail cf rules. It's the creme de la creme of programming languages.

:-)

Sorry. I just had to.

I actually am a dedicated, diehard, happy sendmail user. As an MTA, it has certainly taken it's lumps in the area of security (though *much* better as of late), and in difficulty of configuration (though m4 has helped a lot). But it's a rare moment when I think of something I would like my MTA to do and I find that sendmail can't do it.

But...to each his own.