Re: [Xen-users] mail server on a xen guest?

[Steve Wray <steve.wray@xxxxxxxxx>]

Peter Peltonen wrote:
> Hi all and thanks for your replies,
>
> On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 7:36 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Peter Peltonen wrote:
> > > I'm building a new qmail based mail server. I now have a quad-core
> > *WHY*??? Qmail has many cool technical features, but it's licensing has been
> > extremely burdensome, as has its packaging. Mr. Bernstein has relented and
> > placed his work in the public domain, but it languished for years for that
> > reason. Debugging it in any environment without your own sophisticated
> > sys-geek to work around Mr. Bernstein's policies is.... awkward.
> Because qmail works well for me (it's been very reliable) and I know
> how to administrate it. And there are nice communities around that
> provide tools/SRPMs for installing/upgrading it easily, for example
> http://www.qmailtoaster.com

Just be sure that you keep track of all of the 3rd party patches that 
you have to apply to qmail to turn it into a modern MTA.
You may also want to do your own regression testing of these patches 
against one another because its unlikely that anyone else has done such 
regression testing.
Dan has, IIRC, made the licensing less restrictive but that doesn't 
change the fact that the model that qmail operates on by default is not 
terribly modern. Eg; 'all mail must be either delivered or bounced' does 
not work any more. Sad but true.
When I started work in my current job we had a qmail server. At first I 
thought that it was a perfectly good MTA. I changed my opinion very 
sharply after working with it for a few months. After attempting to 
upgrade it and discovering that it had several 3rd party patches applied 
and that noone knew exactly *what* had been applied it was pretty well 
unmaintainable. Now using exim...
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