OT: building new server, need MTA advice

[Julian Field]

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Scott Silva wrote:
> Dhawal Doshy spake the following on 1/31/2007 8:43 AM:
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>> Scott Silva wrote:
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>>> Res spake the following on 1/30/2007 4:37 AM:
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>>>> On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Randal, Phil wrote:
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>>>>>> Typical outcome .. 2 votes postfix one for exim. A sendmail bash and
>>>>>> an absolute "no" to qmail.
>>>>>>             
>>>> who voted no to qmail? It in fact the best for virtual domains.
>>>>         
>>> The original poster of the thread
>>> "We're looking for something that is secure, efficient, maintained (which
>>> rules out qmail)..."
>>>       
>> One (actually 2) patch to rule them all.. and bring qmail to the current
>> century. So does your current MTA support SPF/DomainKeys without a
>> milter/policy_daemon? This one does..
>> http://qmail.jms1.net/patches/combined.shtml
>>
>> The original qmail may no longer be maintained, but it is still rock
>> solid and quite efficient.. and a few patches do bring it to the level
>> of a sendmail/postfix/exim.. plus as Res adds "show a product that
>> compares to qmail virtual domains".
>>
>> 2 coins..
>> - dhawal
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> But does Julian support qmail in mailscanner?
>   
No, but someone called opencomputing does/did.
> More patches?
>   
What's qmail without its patches? :-)
You don't so much configure it as patch it until it does what you want :-)
> I didn't badmouth qmail, as I haven't used it. I have considered postfix, and
> might try it in my next server build. Used exim only on a Debian print server
> I built back in the stone age. Since I don't have time to do much consulting
> anymore with linux (my spare time is spent fixing windows machines for extra
> $$$), so I really can't spend a lot of time with new things.
> I'm only using sendmail because, like was said before, it is the devil I know.
>
> I hate to waste all that time I banged my head against the wall!
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Jules

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