[NCLUG] New linux server

[J. Paul Reed]

On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Sean Reifschneider wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 03:06:48PM -0800, J. Paul Reed wrote:
> >It's a secure sendmail replacement, and doesn't have the licensing-, setup-,
> >attitude-, and cooperation (or lack thereof) issues that Qmail does.
>
> No indeed.  It has problems ALL of it's own.  ;-P

Well, you guys sell Qmail support... what should we expect you'd say?
"Yeah, Qmail really blows. But we'll still support it for you." That sounds
more like MCSEs who're having to support Exchange than someone who has to
support an open source product.

Postfix is easy to install/maintain and *its* author doesn't yell at you
when you ask questions, so no one needs enterprise support... :-P

Seriously though, I think it's interesting to note that you distribute
Qmail as an SRPM instead of an RPM because DJB has an ego problem.

And if you're a Linux newbie, Qmail is really not the way to go... I'd been
adminning Linux in commericial-use applications for something like three
years when I first installed Qmail, and the install didn't make sense to me
the first time.

Later,
Paul
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