Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: Qmail vs. Postfix

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4: Re: Qmail vs. Postfix (response to 3)
Posted by Tom Ayles on

Having extolled the virtues of installing Postfix over Qmail, I guess I'd be a hypocrite if I didn't offer to write some documentation for it 😊. As I mentioned, I've only ever had need for an outgoing only configuration, but when I've got some time, I'll have a crack at writing a parallel guide to installing Qmail. I'll make the setup functionally as close to that for Qmail as possible. What I can't do is offer any meaningful experience of using Postfix to process incoming mail queues and the like, though maybe I'll try and set up a test environment for that.

Regarding proposals for handling incoming mail, is there some location where these are gathered? I'd be interested in having a look, but all I've found was TIP #26, and 'incoming mail' is a sufficiently vague search term to not work so well. I believe Postfix can be configured to use Qmail-style Maildir mailboxes, which go some distance to providing compatibility.

Thx,
Tom

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5: Re: Qmail vs. Postfix (response to 4)
Posted by Mat Kovach on
OpenACS doesn't require qmail (to be fair qmail is never capitalized).  What id requires is maildir and verps.  Postfix is capable of doing both.  In fact almost every mail server can use those.

acs-mail-lite requires that mail be delivered into a maildir style mail folder.  This can be done using the safecat package, maildrop, or procmail as the mail delivery agent for the MTA.

Postfix, Sendmail, and EXIM can also be configured to VERPs in the style of qmail.

qmail is used because it has these features available by default.