Forum OpenACS Q&A: qmail required or can I use postfix .. ?

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1: qmail required or can I use postfix .. ?
Posted by Patrick Giagnocavo on 07/31/00 07:45 PM
Folks, I am building a new system that I want to have OpenACS on.
System is OpenBSD 2.7, which works good (once you recompile the kernel
and add NMBCLUSTERS=8192).

I have more experience with postfix than with qmail.

The installation guide doesn't seem to talk much about any differences.
I know that the webmail modules seems to need qmail.

Comments/suggestions most welcome....

thanks, patrick

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2: Response to qmail required or can I use postfix .. ? (response to 1)
Posted by Tom Jackson on 08/01/00 05:07 PM

Some parts of the ACS, and I guess OpenACS use qmail-inject for mail delivery. At the least, you would have to track that down and try to get ns_sendmail to do the job.

If the ACS webmail ever gets ported to OpenACS, you will probably need qmail to use it.

I don't mind plugging great software: install qmail, daemontools, ucspi-tcp and djbdns. Checkout http://cr.yp.to/. There is an up-to-date installation guide for qmail at: http://www.flounder.net/qmail/qmail-howto.html.

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3: Response to qmail required or can I use postfix .. ? (response to 1)
Posted by Don Baccus on 08/01/00 07:20 PM
There is a preliminary port of webmail, already, Tom :)
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4: Response to qmail required or can I use postfix .. ? (response to 1)
Posted by Chris Mauritz on 08/06/00 01:40 AM
I second the idea of using postfix or generalizing things such that any MTA can be used.  Qmail is OK, but my testing has shown postfix to be a bit faster AND easier to set up.

Besides, you can ask real questions on the postfix lists without getting an obnoxious answer from Dan.  Dan's crappy attitude is one of the main reasons I've stopped using qmail and his other tools.  If you can't get a straight answer from the developer without insults and condescention, I consider it unsupported software.

Cheers,

C