Re: eQmail or s/qmail

Just a post to give my findings about replacement of a running
qmail-1.03 system.


First I tried to install eQmail, however I bumped into ipv6 and
SSL-support for tcp-server, and insteadoff patching it myself, I
downloaded it from fehcom.
And when I was there I took a short look at the doc's about s/Qmail.
After reading this I thought: just give it a try.

And well, I had a deamontool/tcpserver/qmail with IPv6 SSL running in 10
minutes!
I copied over my users,virtualdomains,rcpthosts, and the base was fine.


After that I had to install some other tools I needed:
- qtools + patch (to make filter_to which I use in .qmail-files)
- bglibs, qmail-autoresponder
- unbound (new caching dns-server insteadoff djbdns)
- qmail-control-script (to stop/start/view queue, purge queue)


The only thing I struggled with was qmail-mrtg, first mrtg-setup (the
damned gd-problem again, I'm on slack so I have to compile it from
source), and then the lack of documentation, so I downloaded the old
qmail-mrtg-package and read the source.


Because s/qmail did went so fine, I didn't try indimail (so I can't tell
if it's good or bad). Nor smtp-auth is installed (will give it a try
later on).
I'll maybe take a look at eQmail indimail again on some other servers,
but I really liked the smooth s/qmail-setup.
I've been running now for 1 week in test mode, and 1 day in normal load.
Had no crashes and TLS is working fine.

Erwin: thx for the great job you already did.
Kai/Manvendra: I'll have to test your products further.

The real + of s/Qmail to me is that is compile all the things you
basicly need, it's up to you if you use it or not.
Erwin: why is there still a pop3 and authentication build in? Most
systems use IMAP now for default, and there are great servers for that
(Dovecot p.e.) which also do pop and authentication.


Best regards,
and keep up the good work.

P.S.
Why not bundle your works eQmail s/Qmail and Indimail in one project?
If you bundle your strength you could be the leader in MTA, replace the
awfull (my personal opinion) exim/postfix.