Topic: Excited about 7.0 - but nervous about qmail!

[morpheusx]

I'm excited about deploying the 7.0 release and intend to start testing the beta this week.

But I'm cautious about deploying qmail because of the lack of development on that package and so many Linux admins moving to postfix. Several people have told me they consider qmail obsolete.

I realize qmail is probably fine for the short term and moving to postfix is not trivial. Is it likely however? And is it likely there will be an automatic qmail>postfix migration utility in a future upgrade?

Also, will I be able to test a soft RAID config in 7.0b4?

Thanks and keep up the great work!

[mrjhb3]

Software raid is installed out of the box with 7.x beta.  Even if you have one drive raid 1 is installed, so you can easily add another drive.  I haven't tested this yet.  There has been talk about moving to postfix on the sourceforge forum, you might want to join that - smeserver.sourceforge.net.  If you can help develop that, they would surely welcome the help.  Or if you feel that it's necessary, then they also welcome a little cash.  

Whether people think qmail is obsolete or not, it's getting the job done for now and that's all that really matters, IMO.

JB

[CharlieBrady]

But I'm cautious about deploying qmail because of the lack of development on that package and so many Linux admins moving to postfix. Several people have told me they consider qmail obsolete.

Does it no longer work?

qmail does have deficiencies. The biggest ones are lack of inbound spam or virus filtering (dealt with by using qpsmtpd), and no support for outbound SMTP authentication (dealt with by using a proxy).

[morpheusx]

Thanks. I guess since SME is self contained and the developers have considered the shortcomings of qmail and handled them in other ways, it really shouldn't matter to me.

[CharlieBrady]

Thanks. I guess since SME is self contained and the developers have considered the shortcomings of qmail and handled them in other ways, it really shouldn't matter to me.

Yep, that's a good way to look at it.

We're seriously looking at postfix for some future version. In the meantime, qmail is working well for thousands.