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A qmail installation that will get you laid - It's gotta be Qmailrocks.org
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I put this site together as a reference guide for people who are new to qmail and need help getting it up and running. I initially became interested in Dan Bernstein's qmail for 2 reasons: First, I was tired or constantly patching sendmail every time a new exploit was found. Secondly, and most importantly, I wanted a way to do virtual domain mail hosting without too much fuss. While it is possible to do virtual domain hosting with Sendmail, it's a pain in the ass and why work so hard to make Sendmail work the way I needed it to when I would only end up with, at best, an insecure MTA that happens to do virtual hosting. I think that the main factor in anyone being reluctant to install qmail it is that, quite frankly, installation can be a daunting task. This is especially true if you're used to Sendmail, as I was. In fact, my first 5 or 6 attempts to install it failed miserably. However, once I got qmail installed and tweaked to my satisfaction, it lived up to its reputation as a solid, secure and no fuss mail solution. I also found that the hard part about setting up a qmail server is NOT the installation of qmail itself. Installing qmail itself is very easy. What's hard is customizing it and apending to it in order to get a mail server that does what you want it to do. You can find tons of sites that tell you how to install plain vanilla qmail, but it's another thing to find a good tutorial about how to build qmail into a badass mail machine. After getting my qmail wings, I decided to publish a site to help others out there who need an easy to follow guide to installing qmail and its appendages. My own installation of qmail is a combination of about 20+ sites of how to's and tutorials, so I wanted to combine all that information into a single resource. Life with Qmail proved to be the most important resource for me, but it mainly focuses on qmail itself. It doesn't go into too much detail about the many add-ons (i like to call them appendages) that can be configured with qmail. Matt Simerson's Qmail Toaster tutorial was also a valuable resource for me, but his configuration didn't quite suit my needs plus it's a how-to for BSDi. I was installing on Redhat 7.3 as well as Redhat 9 (although I've since expanded the site to cover more flavors of Unix & Linux). So, on that note, here is Qmailrocks.org. My little contribution to qmail users everywhere.
Qmailrocks.org started off only as a qmail installation guide for Redhat. Today, the site covers the installation of qmail of 8 operating systems (officially) and is also known to work on at least 4 other systems not covered on this site. Qmailrocks.org has grown into a large community with it's own mailing list, mailing list archive, IRC channel and chat forum. The chat forum now contains over 3500 articles, the mailing list is bustling with activity and the IRC channel is getting more and more crowded by the day. Qmailrocks.org benefits from the contributions and feedback from hundreds and brilliant people from around the world and it is these contributions and my steadfast belief in constant self-improvement that have kept the site in a never ending state of change, improvement and growth. The site started off as just an idea and, thanks to the spirit of the Unix/Linux community, has now grown into an entity all its own. To all the people that have made this possible, I say THANK YOU!
I'll start off by telling you what I am not. I am not a certified Unix, Linux or qmail god-like genius. I am no Dan Bernstein. I do not claim by any stretch of the imagination to know everything there ever is to know about qmail. I like my installation of it, however, and I hope that others out there will find this site as useful as I have found other qmail sites out there. I make mistakes and I'm sure that this installation guide has many of them. You can always feel free to give me suggestions, point out a typo or tell me when I am just dead wrong on something. By the way, I mean "dead wrong" in a technical sense. If you don't like my opinions on something, that's another story. ;) Like most techheads I learn from my mistakes. I only got to where I'm at with my qmail skills (and believe me, they're not complete) by totally failing at its installation at least half a dozen times.
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- PO Box 89172
- Atlanta GA 30312 US
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- The Rocks Project
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- Alexa: QmAilRocks.org
