Re: eQmail or s/qmail

People,


On 2016-05-15 04:11, Manvendra Bhangui wrote:
> On 13 May 2016 at 22:05, Pascal Nobus <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 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.
>> 
> 
> I have myself taken a look at s/qmail. Dr Erwin writes code well and
> in the same style as DJB. I have shamelessly integrated his code in
> indimail. QHPSI was his first work that I really liked. Unlike other
> virus scanning interfaces, QHPSI does the scanning inline. i.e. It
> scans the email while qmail-queue is reading the data from
> qmail-smtpd. There is no additional disk I/O it incurs.
> 
>> 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)
> 
> qtools, qmail-autoresponder are already packaged with indimail-mta and
> indimai. indimail-mta/indimail has a modified qmail-qread to list
> queues like qmHandle and qmail-rm to purge the queue.
> 
>> 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.
>> 
> 
> If you want to try indimail, you should be trying indimail-mta instead
> of indimail. indimail-mta includes qmail + all patches, daemontools +
> ucspi-tcp, tls, ipv6, dkim, srs, spf, etc. indimail is a huge package
> which includes courier-imap, virtual domain using MySQL as backend and
> many other tools
> 
> To be honest, I have not been good at documentation and users may find
> it difficult to build it from source. But the git repo is there and
> all it requires is make; make install (not make setup check like
> qmail). An easy way to try out indimail-mta is to use the docker
> images at (assuming you know about docker and have the docker-engine
> installed on your machine)
> 
> http://indimail.blogspot.in/2016/04/using-docker-engine-to-run-indimail.html


A docker container is a great idea!  I had been rolling my own qmail for 
a long time but finally felt the pressure to reduce the effort of 
re-installing after a clean Fedora install to the latest version - which 
I do after every two or three versions or so - and changed to eQmail 
about a year ago which went very nicely!  I would prefer a qmail Docker 
image that has EVERYTHING in it but also has a nice I/F to turn options 
on or off as desired.


>> 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.
> 
> This is a good suggestion. Willing to give it a try but not sure how
> to take this forward. Maybe it requires someone to play the role of a
> facilitator bring us all together and drive it as a project with
> concrete goals.


I am not likely to ever change from qmail so a resurgence of life for it 
by a new, multi-developer version would be great for me . . if it were 
possible . .

Thanks for the support over the years people!

Regards,

Phil.
-- 
Philip Rhoades

PO Box 896
Cowra  NSW  2794
Australia
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