Re: mail server from source saga continues....

[Aly Dharshi <aly dharshi uleth ca>]

Well if we are building from scratch I would put in my vote for Exim, having 
used it for a couple of large projects, I have found that its widely maintained 
and isn't sorry to say stagnant like Qmail is, there hasn't been a release of 
Qmail past 1.03 I would say and that Exim has matured to 4.x with a wide user base.

Supports Maildirs, LDAP and other authentication methods natively no need to 
patch things and is much easier to do things with check it out (http://www.exim.org)

	Cheers,

	Aly.

Andy Schuler wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-07-30 at 12:02, daniel wrote:
>
>
> > 'cause i'm "practicing" for a linux build on a machine that won't be big
> > enough for a redhat install.  besides, i want to learn how to do things from
> > source and not be dependant of pre-made packages.  it breeds problems just
> > like this one where i don't know what kind of authorisation my machine is
> > using and should use for pop3.
>
>
> Since you're building your mail server from source why not look at qmail
> instead of sendmail? It has many advantages over sendmail, one of the
> major ones being security. There are some great step-by-step toasters
> out there for building qmail on a linux system. It can be used very
> easily with vpopmail for vitual domains and can be configured with
> Spamassassin for spam control. I have also found that I like dealing
> with Maildirs much better than mboxs. Check it out
>
> http://qmail.org


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