As folks who know and use qmail, I could really use your feedback.
I maintain qmail and qmail-run packages in pkgsrc, a cross-platform Unix
package manager. We ship quarterly releases and will soon be shipping
2018Q4. I want to make sure the many improvements I've made since Q3 --
most notably acceptutils -- work well on a variety of platforms and
behave in ways that make sense to qmail users.
I've done some testing myself, and can vouch for CentOS 6 and 7, Debian
9, Mac OS X 10.14.2, FreeBSD 12, OpenBSD 6.4, Tribblix m20.5, and of
course my NetBSD 8 mail server where I run these packages in production.
I've also had usability testing from a friend who uses NetBSD, pkgsrc,
and qmail.
Even if you _don't_ use pkgsrc (guessing few of you do), if you'd be
willing to use it temporarily, please
1. Bootstrap pkgsrc-current
2. Try installing mail/qmail-run and pkgtools/rc.d-boot
3. Reply off-list with your findings:
- Your OS, version, and architecture?
- Did packaging or installation break anywhere along the way? (Logs
appreciated)
- Did you have to learn anything to get qmail running? (Details
appreciated)
- Does it seem to work?
- Would you maybe actually consider using it? (I'd love to know why or
why not)
Here's what I know so far: https://schmonz.com/qmail/pkgsrc-qmail-run/
Thanks,
- Amitai
I maintain qmail and qmail-run packages in pkgsrc, a cross-platform Unix
package manager. We ship quarterly releases and will soon be shipping
2018Q4. I want to make sure the many improvements I've made since Q3 --
most notably acceptutils -- work well on a variety of platforms and
behave in ways that make sense to qmail users.
I've done some testing myself, and can vouch for CentOS 6 and 7, Debian
9, Mac OS X 10.14.2, FreeBSD 12, OpenBSD 6.4, Tribblix m20.5, and of
course my NetBSD 8 mail server where I run these packages in production.
I've also had usability testing from a friend who uses NetBSD, pkgsrc,
and qmail.
Even if you _don't_ use pkgsrc (guessing few of you do), if you'd be
willing to use it temporarily, please
1. Bootstrap pkgsrc-current
2. Try installing mail/qmail-run and pkgtools/rc.d-boot
3. Reply off-list with your findings:
- Your OS, version, and architecture?
- Did packaging or installation break anywhere along the way? (Logs
appreciated)
- Did you have to learn anything to get qmail running? (Details
appreciated)
- Does it seem to work?
- Would you maybe actually consider using it? (I'd love to know why or
why not)
Here's what I know so far: https://schmonz.com/qmail/pkgsrc-qmail-run/
Thanks,
- Amitai