[TriLUG] qmail and RHEL 4 - all mail routed to same email...

[Jason Tower]

there's nothing wrong with qmail, but postfix offers most (if not all) 
of qmail's benefits while also being easy to install and configure.  and 
while qmail may be second in terms of messages processed (presumably 
because there are a few big places like yahoo that use it) it is most 
certainly not second in terms of number of installations.

for someone who wants to set up a quick and dirty smtp server 
(especially on a red hat box) postfix is most certainly the easiest 
path.  just install postfix and system-switchmail, then run 
system-switchmail to change the default mta from sendmail to postfix. 
make a few quick edits of main.cf and you're golden.

jason

John Jones wrote:
> I am not sure why so many people are down on qmail.  It is an 
> *extremely* secure MTA and also extremely stable.
> 
> Whoever "dumped" it on you probably knew what he was doing and should 
> most likely be commended.
> 
> qmail is touted as the second most popular MTA, right behind Sendmail.  
> I think we all know it is FAR more secure than Sendmail, which IMO has 
> an abysmal security record (at least, last I checked).
> 
> I don't care what we think of the author of this software, I have been 
> using it for over six years and have not had to patch it one time for 
> security purposes, and can probably count on one hand the number of 
> times I had to restart it.  In fact, I might not have ever had to 
> restart qmail because of a problem with qmail.  Sure, I ran out of HD 
> space, or filled up the log partition and had to restart, but not 
> usually (if ever) qmail's fault.
> 
> That said, qmail is not for a newbie, I will give you that.  All the 
> configuring is done by hand.
> 
> A very useful site would be http://www.lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html.
> 
> I am not sure exactly how to do what you are asking, but it looks like 
> this comes close:
> http://www.lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html#extension-addresses
> 
> 
> It seems that qmail has wildcard matching, from looking at the example.  
> You would have to play around in the alias directory to get it right.  
> Other than that, you would need to set up a few files in your ./controls 
> directory.  Namely the "locals" file which configures what domains qmail 
> will accept mail for.
> 
> If you go through the trouble up front, you will have a stable, secure 
> and reliable MTA that will "just work" for years and years without 
> hardly an effort (my experience anyway).
> 
> I hope this helps.
> 
> -John
>