Re: eQmail or s/qmail

Erwin Hoffmann <[email protected]> Sat, 23 Apr 2016 22:10:46 +0200
Newsgroups	gmane.mail.qmail.general
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Hi Pascal,

after Manvendra and Kai promoted their 'products', let my give you my comment:

a) As Manvendra said: Try and evaluate all three qmail successors.

b) Over the last decades, qmail developed like a garden without gardener.

c) There are tasty fruits and basic fruits which need to be planted.
Three of those I tried to grow up, thus you can harvest those: IPv6, Auth, and TLS (within s/qmail).

d) You seem to have other tastes. I don't know about 'assp', nor about SRS (not yet; SPF is on my list).
Thus, I have no expertise to provide add-ons for any of those (however, this could change).

However, currently I don't see any 'convergency' to join all the activities together into a common platform.
Two give you two examples:

- exim (Phil Hazel) seems to be used like a brick yard (on Debian).
- Postfix (Wietse Venema) is a strong focused project (everywhere).

At first, because we - as developers - like to protect our work; we are all 'egomanes'.
Second, because we simply have too different views on the 'real qmail world'.

What I try to do, is to provide a solid code base (and the right ideas).
Documented, functional, in the spirit of DJB.
I do this partially for my students to teach them how to do things (right).
Minimalistic, no 'stdio', no MySQL, no SASL; OpenSSL is hard to avoid.
Very few dependencies. Working on current systems.

This is my 'philosophy' - which might not coincident with your expectations.

I'am glad, that my enhancements made their way to 'other products' as well.

Again: Your choice. Anyone's choice. Free software. Free to 'mod' it.

I would be happy, if qmail.org (Russ Nelson) would reflect those thoughts.


Best regards.
--eh.


> Am 21.04.2016 um 11:00 schrieb Pascal Nobus <[email protected]>:
> 
> Since the previous century we are running several mailservers on qmail,
> serving around 6000 domains with about 4000 mailboxes.
> 
> All systems are based on the original Qmail-1.03, with the standard
> patches, and all run on a single UID, based on Paul Greggs howto:
> https://pgregg.com/projects/qmail/singleuid/
> 
> Spamfiltering is done in front of Qmail, with assp. So no hookups needed
> for this. (assp listens to port 25, qmail to port 125)
> 
> Ezmlm is also in use.
> 
> 
> Because of the several patches the last years (some have TLS, other
> IPv6, some both, some none of these), we want to make a new fresh start
> with compiling qmail on our servers.
> Our systems are mixed-OS's, most run on Slackware, some of them on
> CentOS, so I want to compile the things myself.
> 
> 
> Which package should we follow?
> eQmail, s/qmail, or are there others?
> 
> Any tips are welcome.
> 
> Best regards,
> Pascal Nobus
> 

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