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This would be great if some of the excellent components that work with qmail to make a nice email appliance also got updated. qmail with vpopmail and qmailadmin
by patchtopic 7y ago
This would be great if some of the excellent components that work with qmail to make a nice email appliance also got updated.
qmail with vpopmail and qmailadmin used to make a great email appliance, but previously the overhead of maintaining it made it un-usable long term so I ditched it for postfix+dovecote+postfixadmin
but there was a lot to like about qmail+vpopmail+qmailadmin
- linsomniac 7y agoI feel like everyone has moved on from qmail to postfix; I wonder who is still using qmail. I was a huge qmail fan back in the mid '90s, it was a breath of fresh air in comparison to sendmail. But by the 2000s it was feeling largely abandoned, had a lot of hoops you had to jump through, and Postfix was on the scene and had none of those disadvantages. The last time I used qmail, it was quite a pain to collect up all the required patches and build, just to make a reliable MTA. I'm thinking things like the TCP DNS patch so you could send e-mail to AOL. I realize netqmail came along later to try to fix this. I guess I had just assumed that everyone had moved on to postfix like I had.
- knowsmorsecode 7y agoI still run it happily.
- arantius 7y agoTechnically netqmail and with some other distribution (Gentoo) patches added, but I still happily use qmail.