Re: tlug: dot forward & procmail

[Jonathan Byrne <jq@example.com>]

Simon Cozens (simon@example.com) wrote:

> >Any advise will be greatly appreciated.
> 
> www.qmail.org?

Please, no.  The last thing the world needs is another MX that won't
take mail from anyone.  If someone must - absolutely must - pitch sendmail, 
then take a look at http://www.postfix.org/ instead.  The qmail 
philosophy seems to be "Be very strict in what you produce (make it
correct) and be even worse about what you accept."  That's nice, but
doesn't work very well in the real world IMHO.

A more realistic approach is to be correct in what you send, and liberal
in what you accept.  Sure,there's all kinds of stuff that would be nice
to just bounce, but in the real world, your customers become unhappy
if you do.  Make mine Sendmail or Postfix, thanks.  Postfix, BTW, will
read sendmail config files.  AFAIK, qmail won't, so you get a smoother
transition with Postfix.

Anyway, it's a fact of life that all MTAs are complex.  You just have
to name your poison.  Dumping Sendmail might reduce some complexity
(maybe), but it won't get you away from the fact that mailers are
complex.  The sendmail book is the thickest tome in O'Reilly's lineup,
but I find it easy to imagine it wouldn't be much thinner if it were
about a different MTA.

Jonathan


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