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qmail
qmail is a modern replacement for sendmail, written by Dan Bernstein. qmail is proven to be more secure than Sendmail, and much faster.
| Tags | Communications Email Mail Transport Agents |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | POSIX |
| Implementation | C |
Recent releases
- 13 Aug 2001 16:54
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Recent commentsRe: 8 years and counting...
> maybe the community should just post the final
> known good patches and give up.
The community did bundle qmail with the known good
patches, back in January 2004. Have a look at
http://www.qmail.org/netqmail/
They're still supporting it too.
Re: qmail
> http://www.maz.es
> We are using qmail at our organization.
> Qmail is perfectly managing more than
> 500 accounts with very
> heavy traffic.
> QMail it's faster and more secure than
> any other MTA.
> The compilation, installation and
> configuration is trivial in front of
> Sendmail.
>
good fer ya. from my past experience on qmail, adding new features means possibly breaking the qmail code. I would say qmail would be good if you have the time to slowly debug. Not when you want something up, running and glitchless. within a couple of hours.
8 years and counting...
I still use qmail because I have some legacy
software that requires it. But it's time DJB either
gave up the code under BSD or GPL, or we call it a
day and stop recommending it to people. It may be
fairly secure, but it's creaking old with plenty of
performance issues and bind/libc/etc. bugs. If he
isn't going to give up the code, maybe the
community should just post the final known good
patches and give up. All the hacks to add
more modern functionality to qmail are just that -
hacks. This dog doesn't hunt in today's Internet
anymore... much less the IPv6 networks that are
coming. Maybe DJB will see the light some day and
free his babies? Sadly, I doubt it.
Re: about qmail
DJB has strange ideas about itself and about how programs should intrude the system. Keeping the whole qmail "package" (including binary) in /var/qmail/ could be understood for non-intrusiveness, but what about keeping djbdns caches under /etc/? That quite frequent in DJB's software.
However, qmail is a great software and it really more simple to use than how most people think.
It' objectively much better than sendmail. It could be, instead, compared with courier and such.
Re: I agree.
> I would love TLS support. Only Sendmail has it AFAIK.
Exim (http://freshmeat.net/projects/exim/) supports TLS,
and it's much easier to set it up under Exim than under Sendmail.