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gempabumi asks: "I'm in the process of setting up a production server and I need to decide on an MTA. The main function of the MTA will be to run Mailman mailing lists. Of sendmail, Postfix, exim, and qmail, which MTA do you recommend? What are the strengths/weaknesses of each?"
Qmail is a very good piece of software, secure, efficient, fast and with many add-ons available. The main problem I've had with it is the documentation, which is somewhat missing.
The software is really modular, with a daemon to handle every task, you can really tailor it to your needs. Spam blocking, virtual hosting and more are done with modules. One of the results of this is that you have to look at many places for documentation and these many docs often contradict themselves.
There's a howto of correct quality, but if you go a bit further than standard setup (I tried to setup vmailmgr for virtualhosting) you're bust!
I also urge you to set it up on a debian distro, because some stuff like user accounts is already configured.
Quentin
First off, *do not use mailman*. This is easily the worst mailing list software you can find. It mails passwords, clear text, monthly. I think gnu mailmain is even two steps worse than majordomo, which is hard to complish.
Qmail is fast, efficient, easy to configure (the config files make sense) and there is a huge amount of support.
Qmail has been tight for years; the code hasn't changed in a long time. The only problem with that is the documentation is out of date. I heard rumours of a qmail 1.04 to fix the documentation.
After you choose qmail, I recommend ezmlm for mailing lists.
The configuration that always comes through for me is:
qmail+vpopmail+ezmlm
Make sure all of your domains are vpopmail virtuals.
Also, if you are affraid to get into the hardcore configuration right away, start with qmailadmin. It supports all the ezmlm stuff, so you can use the gui right away. You'll start running into limitations, but you will have lots of examples to use from that point.
btw, I have unsubscrbed from mailing lists because they use mailman.
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Qmail is a very good piece of software, secure, efficient, fast and with many add-ons available.
The main problem I've had with it is the documentation, which is somewhat missing. The software is really modular, with a daemon to handle every task, you can really tailor it to your needs. Spam blocking, virtual hosting and more are done with modules. One of the results of this is that you have to look at many places for documentation and these many docs often contradict themselves.
There's a howto of correct quality, but if you go a bit further than standard setup (I tried to setup vmailmgr for virtualhosting) you're bust!
I also urge you to set it up on a debian distro, because some stuff like user accounts is already configured. Quentin
First off, *do not use mailman*. This is easily the worst mailing list software you can find. It mails passwords, clear text, monthly. I think gnu mailmain is even two steps worse than majordomo, which is hard to complish.
Qmail is fast, efficient, easy to configure (the config files make sense) and there is a huge amount of support.
Qmail has been tight for years; the code hasn't changed in a long time. The only problem with that is the documentation is out of date. I heard rumours of a qmail 1.04 to fix the documentation.
After you choose qmail, I recommend ezmlm for mailing lists.
The configuration that always comes through for me is:
qmail+vpopmail+ezmlm
Make sure all of your domains are vpopmail virtuals.
Also, if you are affraid to get into the hardcore configuration right away, start with qmailadmin. It supports all the ezmlm stuff, so you can use the gui right away. You'll start running into limitations, but you will have lots of examples to use from that point.
btw, I have unsubscrbed from mailing lists because they use mailman.
-- DrZaius - Minister of Sciences and Protector of the Faith