On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 07:58:28PM +0100, Joerg Fritsch wrote:
> Actually I'm using M$Outlook because I do not feel obliged to any OS (even
> Unix) and at home I'm using a G4 Mac with M$Outlook. I'm using no
> spellchecking at all. I try to focus on what I really need --Just because
> some peole were wondering.
>
> I can make a list what I do not like about qmail:
> - it comes with an initscript for starting and stopping

It doesnt't.

> and because of
> it's modular architecture it starts several processess. However till now I
> have never seen a successful restart.

svc -t /service/qmail-*

> There might be some zombies and qmail
> would not come up again until you got rid of them.

your setup is broken, your OS is broken, most likely, the error sits between
keyboard and chair.

> - if you are debugging your environment, you can not simply look into the
> queue and check if a special (Test)eMail is sitting there; the eMail is
> split into parts (bits & pieces) and that makes life kinda hard. Even the
> queue is not a plain directory where all the eMails are sitting.

Thats one reasin why qmail is so much faster then sendmail. there are
qmail-qstat and qmail-qread.

> - Since about one year I have qMail in productive use, delivering mail for
> more than 2400 (local) domains. You need entries in the rcpthosts and
> virtualdomains. However, every now and then qMail simply forgets (without
> having undergone a change) very few entries of the rcpthosts or
> morercpthosts.

It doesn't. If your installation does you've made serious faults.

> Then, the eMail is rejected and the customer is very angry,
> you know.
> - You should only put about 50 entries in the rcpthosts, for more entries
> you need to make a morercpthosts. I never got rid of the impression that
> qMail was written ... originally planing no more than 50 (local) domains.

wrong. if you have more than 50 domains looking up them in a cdb database
instead of a text file speeds up things noticeable.

> - When using qMail with a very recent release of MySQL, the connection to
> MySQL can "suffer" that much, so that qMail simply delivers mail into
> nowhere without any entry in the Errorlog. Mails go missing.

qmail has no mysql support. there are patches for qmail to work with mysql,
obviously they are broken or your setup is broken once again.

> - If you only need a mailrelay, qMail is way harder to configure than
> sendmail.

????
echo hostname > me; echo hostname > locals; echo domain > rcpthosts

versus sendmail.cf...

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