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Re: Qmail-IMAP
Ira Abramov <ira@scso.com> wrote:
|actually I haven't followed for more than a month while I was abroad.
|Qmail has been VERY stable for the last few versions, the last security
|hole squashed way back 8 months or more ago. Version 1.0 has been out for
|quite a while, under a GNU-like license.
So would you install it on your most sensitive mail host as it is
today? Can anyone in this forum give me a reason NOT to install it?
|since it uses the maildirs instead of mbox as default, it has it's own
|qmail-pop and qmail-imap for now. very few people on the list complained
|about the popd being slow or stucky, and those were ISPs with tens of
|thousands of messages a day or more, btw, WAY after the standard GNU pop3d
|gives way. for such large volumes maildirs are also wasty, so usually
So it sounds like it handles POP-3 better...
|those people switch to qmail delivering to mbox and Qualcomm's Qpopper
|server. I have no idea how well the qmail-imap functions, but it's based
What's wrong with maildirs? UNIX-format mailboxes a simple text files
and I was expecting to have those "special-format" files handle
simulatanous access better.
|on wu's daemon, i.e. same as pine's (not too good in my book).
OK, then we won't provide IMAP-4 functionality until this area clears
(just noticed that Netscape Communicator supports IMAP, so I'd expect
a demand for IMAP relatively soon)
|the first rules Cheswick and Belovin teach you in their Firewall book is
|keep as few programs running, and those you must keep: make sure they are
|small and safe. Qmail does just that. the component that runs as root is
|tiny and is mainly there to spawn other child unpriviliged processes of
|the actual tools. it's extremely fast and efficient, MUCH faster than
|sendmail, that's for sure, and MUCH more inteligent as a delivery agent.
|However for UUCP and other weird archaic links, many prefer to sometimes
|default back to more documented MTAs like sendmail. basically, AFAIK,
|there shouldn't be any problems...
I suppose that if/when I'll need tha more fancy stuff one day then
I'll be able to route it from Qmail to a special sendmail machine...
|as for mailing lists: there is a tiny patch to make majordomo 1.94
|compatable with Qmail, and there is also ezmlm (easy mail-list manager?)
|from Dan Bernstein (who wrote Qmail), and works also very tightly with
|Qmail, but is not as versatile as majordomo when it comes to limiting
|posts etc.
Thanks a lot for your report.
BTW, how busy is the mailing list?
Cheers,
--Amos
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