On the subject of Qmail for SuSE, I just got done installing from lifewithqmail on a 9.3 amd_64 machine. everything went smooth for the most part, except that I noticed the memory requirements were much greater than my 32bit server. (stack?) This became a gotha when I tried to use checkpassword for pop mail. Following the docs, you can test the install of checkpassword, and it will test good, but when it gets called by qmail, from an outside connection, it fails due to the softlimit set for tcpserver. Took forever beating my head aganst the wall last night to finally find the oom with strace. The trick was to increase the soft limit to 7000000, and all was fine. Because of the frustration, I wanted to share this to hopefully help someone else avoid this in the near future. Also, someone in the freenode qmail room pointed me to this nice resourse for qmail, and looks like they will be supporting SuSE soon. www.qmailrocks.org FYI B-) On Friday 13 January 2006 8:21 am, Regis Matejcik wrote:
That's essentially true. qmail can be distributed in binary form with some very specific limitations.
I don't think Bernstein really wants qmail to be "easy" to install and set up. With the extremely circuitous install process, I think the point is that once you install it - you really do know how the system works. You pretty much need to install according to: http://www.lifewithqmail.org/ - even so - it will take first timers several hours to work through.
But hey qmail is a great piece of programming. It still offers a reward for anyone finding a security hole, and it can run using almost no resources by todays standards.
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