[luau] RH 7.2 vs. 7.3 questions

[Ho'ala Greevy]

Having worked for an email firm for several years in the Bay Area during the
dot com explosion/implosion, it is my firm conviction that qmail is the best
MTA out there.  Secure, stable, hi-performance, and very scalable.  To get a
feeling for the power of qmail, consider these factoids:
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While Sendmail plods through a list of recipients delivering one message at
a time, qmail spawns 20 or more deliviries at a time.  And b/c qmail's
processes are much smaller than Sendmail's, it can do more work faster, with
fewer system resources.  Further, Sendmail can lose messages in some of its
delivery modes if the system crashes at the wrong time.  For reliability,
speed, and simplicity, qmail has one crash-proof delivery mode.  Even if the
system loses power with undelivered messages in the queue, once power is
restored and the system is restarted, qmail will pick up where it left off
without losing a single message.  qmail guarantees that once it accepts a
message, it won't be lost, barring catasrophic hardware failure.

Furthermore, in 1997 qmail creator Dan Bernstein offered $500 to the first
person who could find a security bug in qmail.  As of today, August 2002,
the offer still stands.
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Although a hassle at first, creating the qmail user accounts is fairly
straightforward and is a one-time deal.

Erich, as for your RedHat subscription question, you oughta check out
KRUD -> http://www.tummy.com/krud

The August version of KRUD 7.3 is available for $7, while a year
subscription will run you $65.  It's a steal:  you get monthly errata
updates + an assortment of bonux packages that one would usually install by
hand anyway (http://www.tummy.com/krud/index_html/body/packages).  And no,
they don't pay me to say that.  I just like the product :)

hope that helps,
Ho'ala

-----Original Message-----
From: luau-admin at videl.ics.hawaii.edu
[mailto:luau-admin at videl.ics.hawaii.edu]On Behalf Of Brian Chee
Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 7:02 PM
To: luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu
Subject: Re: [luau] RH 7.2 vs. 7.3 questions


Yeah sharky.....

I've been in a quandry on what email system to move to....I just don't have
the time to make a career out of supporting sendmail, so it's either postifx
(direct drop in for sendmail) or qmail.  Lots of folks seem to like
qmail...just a hassle to create all those accounts since it separates
functions into small portions and assigns a user to each function.  The idea
is that if you compromise one, you don't lose the rest....at least that's
how it works in theory.

/brian chee

University of Hawaii ICS Dept
Advanced Network Computing Lab
1680 East West Road, POST rm 311
Honolulu, HI  96822
808-956-5797 voice, 808-956-5175 fax

----- Original Message -----
From: "Erich S." <sharky at websharx.com>
To: <luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 3:12 AM
Subject: RE: [luau] RH 7.2 vs. 7.3 questions


> On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Florian Hines wrote:
>
> > I got 7.3 pro when i went to the RH lab's and like it, but i can't
compare
> > it 7.2 because i went from 7.1 straight to 7.3.
> >
> > Lately thats what i've installed for all my client's also.
>
> Hehe OK fair enough...at least I know it hasn't caused you enough grief to
> go back to 7.1 :)
>
> > For mail service i usually like sendmail/squirellmail/and mailman or my
> > custom mailing list program.
> > I've never been able to get used to qmail but thats just me.
>
> Ya know, I haven't used anything but sendmail. More by default than
> anything else, and I'm pretty novice despite having started playing with
> Linux with a copy of Slackware I bought off of Pat Volkderding himself at
> COMDEX '94. I just try to keep a webserver and mail server running, and
> Linux has been great for that. I'm trying to learn more though.
>
> > I like to install apache my self always unless the client need's to use
> > ColdFusion Server 5 or Chili!Soft ASP (They can get better support that
way
> > if something should go wrong).
>
> Same here. I installed coldfusion on an older Celeron 500mhz setup with
> 128MB of RAM, and whoa...it really eats up some CPU. Feels like my 200mhz
> MMX pentium with 64MB running PHP/mySQL and PostNuke (hence the reason for
> upgrading)
>
> Thank you for your response...I'm waiting for a new drive to arrive before
> doing my install later this week. (P3-800mhz w/ 256MB RAM and 40GB HD)
>
> Aloha,
> Erich
>
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