[clug-talk] mail server using qmail

[Gustin Johnson]

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The current beta release of Kolab has support for simple vhosting, but
this version is not quite production ready.

Shawn wrote:
> On Friday 12 May 2006 23:17, Brad Camroux wrote:
>> No real reason other than I have the O'Reilly book on qmail and I wanted to
>> give it a shot. If I'd have known how frustrating the .qmail files really
>> are to understand, I would have never installed qmail in the first place. 
>> But it's working now (although qmail-send doesn't seem to be logging
>> itself... must look into that one).
> 
> I found qmail to be a good solution when you want a simple mail server.  For a 
> single domain.
> 
> Anytime I moved beyond this criteria I ran into no end of troubles getting 
> things running and staying running.  I eventually decided that if I have to 
> do that much effort anyways, I may as well use postfix with virtual hosting 
> because there is so much more documentation out there on it. (postfix also 
> fits that minimalist criteria just fine).
> 
> Most of the problems I encountered were with setting up spam/virus filtering, 
> virtual domains, or remote authentication.  In most cases I was able to work 
> out what was going on except when I hit the weird authentication problems 
> from remote networks.  (all the resources I found suggested I had things set 
> right, but it still failed).
> 
> Then I found Kolab.  All those headaches went away.  The only thing I had to 
> give up was virtual hosting.  But only cuz I'm too lazy (and don't have a 
> need) to set this up with Kolab.  The current release (unless I missed a 
> version or two) does not support virtual hosting itself.  But I've heard you 
> can use Kolab as the backend to something like vpopmail.  I'm also hearing 
> the next release will support virtual hosting.
> 
> With Kolab, I was up and running in about 15 minutes, and have never had to 
> touch the server again.  er, ok, I did touch it again to implement tighter 
> spam filtering.  But that was MY choice.  Not a crash that had to be fixed.
> 
> Glad you got your qmail running though.. :)
> 
> Shawn
> 
> 
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