Re: Refreshing qmail server

Hi Pascal, All,

just another question - are you still using vpopmail or is there another
way to get virtual users working more "elegant" with qmail?

I use dovecot with mysql for IMAP so this part is all set, I "just" need
a tool to route the mails and alias stuff based on some SQL tables. I am
not afraid to write some scripts to resolve directory path / redirects
from user names but to be honest I dont get the idea how routing is done
in qmail atm.

best regards

Oliver

Am 29.11.18 um 13:41 schrieb Pascal Nobus:
> A point of view from a user.
> 
> I had the same problem: several Qmail-servers with a couple of thousand
> users.
> Changing towards Postfix or Exim was not really an option because we
> have a backoffice build on .qmail-files, some scripts that where
> activated when mail was send to, mailinglists, (de-)activate autoreplys,
> etc.
> After my search I ended up with s/qmail, it worked exactly as I wanted it.
> No patches where needed after a blank install, and we had modern things
> like TLS, IPv6 and smtp-authentication.
> For antispam I use a front-proxy (assp), which is more specialized in
> all these rapidly changing techniques.
> 
> The only thing I'm still missing is SRS.
> 
> 
> For the rest: Install it, Configure it, and forget about it.
> I've been running it for more then a year now without a single problem.
> Thx Erwin!
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Op 29-11-18 om 12:55 schreef Manvendra Bhangui:
>> On Thu, 29 Nov 2018 at 00:06, Kai Peter <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 2018-11-25 19:32, Oliver Welter wrote:
>>>> Hi All,
>>>>
>>>> Finally - some time there was an announcement that s/qmail and eQmail
>>>> want to join forces - are there any news on this?
>>>
>>> Now, I was hoping that Erwin replies to this question - anyway.
>>>
>>> To be honest I couldn't say that aQmail will come out soon. To be more
>>> honest I think it doesn't make sense to wait for it. May be it will or
>>> it will not come out.
>>>
>>> IMHO there are the following alternatives:
>>>
>>> - eQmail 1.08.1 to 1.10
>>> - indimail
>>> - s/qmail
>>>
>>> The order is alphabetical. Whatever you like and prefer. I couldn't say
>>> a lot about s/qmail or inidmail. If they would fit my needs, I never
>>> would have created eQmail. eQmail works perfect to me. But Erwin and
>>> Manvendra would say the same ;-)
>>>
>> Exactly. Ultimately it will be the end-user who needs to decide what
>> he/she is comfortable with. But one need to get hands dirty to figure
>> that out.
>>
>> But It looks like there is just a tiny crowd left, who are still
>> working with qmail/netqmail to add new features required in the
>> current times.  Erwin, Kai Peter,  Amitai Schleier, Thibault Richards
>> and myself. As far as indimail is concerned, it is a hobby for me. I
>> keep on working on it because I love the way DJB coded qmail,
>> ucsp-tcp, daemontools and all of his other works. Coding in djb style
>> is lot of hard work, but fun. Even simple things like formatting
>> strings is about carefully crafting together the fmt_str, fmt_ulong,
>> etc instead of just one statement sprintf. You might have to put in
>> few substdio_put statements instead of just one printf from the
>> standard c library. But with substdio you know that your data has got
>> out successfully (unlike printf). Maybe it is just me, but sprintf,
>> printf are ugly. Arbitrary string lengths are ugly. I have seen
>> Erwin's code and his code is also with lot of care like djb without
>> arbitrary string lengths or variable sizes. s/qmail and eQmail are
>> much smaller and simpler to install and maintain than indimail, while
>> indimail has almost everything that I need to run and cater to large
>> number of users, but it has far too many control files and environment
>> variables to configure. qmailrocks has good documentation that any
>> newbie can follow and set it up. Mostly you won't go wrong if you have
>> simple needs and go with s/qmail, eQmail, qmailrocks or indimail-mta
>> (a much smaller version of indimail).
>>
> 


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