On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 17:48:11 +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian
<linux@???> wrote:
> Dilip M [1/29/2004 5:42 PM] :
>
>> Let me introduce myself first.I work for a organization called
>> s7solutions.com.I have been told to setup FREE mailserver.As majority of
>> ppl i started with qmail server.But till today i don't see that service
>> up
>> for more than 7 days...sometimes pop stops some time anti virus (clamd)
>> stops!!
>
> qmail is not as bad as that, you know ... it can be quite stable. And I
> don't see why you are blaming qmail for the problems with your pop3 and
> antivirus servers.
>
> Hint: upgrade to a newer version of clamd, and consider something like
> courier-imap for your pop3 / imap needs.
>
>> Just came to know from Internet , that Exim is simple to setup and it
>> can
>> be integrate with some other FREE anti virus tools(That is must for me)
>
> So can qmail, so can a whole lot of others.
>
> But yes, exim is far easier and more flexible to set up and use than
> qmail is ... qmail is the sort of beast that requires patches for just
> about everything remotely useful (ESMTP SIZE, STARTTLS, AUTH, LDAP /
> MySQL dbs ...)
>
>> 2)It should manage medium traffic at least 500 mails per day.
>
> You can do that with a 486 if you want. Your p3 is big enough. Just
> upgrade your redhat, patch it to current versions (if you can still find
> up2date running for it ... 7.3 is past its end of life now I think).
>
> srs
>
Suresh,
> qmail is not as bad as that, you know ... it can be quite stable. And I
> don't see why you are blaming qmail for the problems with your pop3 and
> antivirus servers.
I apologize if my english meant that!! my english sucks :((
I'm fructatted since i'm seeing no logs for errors by clam!!
But i'm fructuated :((
Once i removed ,
#QMAILQUEUE="/var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue.pl" export QMAILQUEUE
from
File "/var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run"
all viruses are coming in and lastly more important mails are working
fine !!
I suspect that problem is with clamav.!!
Once happned like this:
All the mails which was composed through email clients were not getting in
to mail queue! Whereas sqwebamil was working fine.Suspected the smtp
firewall connection from clients to server ...( i know the iptables
rules,it there from past 2 months unchaged)
But how the mails are getting fetched by mail clients but the clinets are
putting mails into queue.
Ok,as per my knowledge fetching happens via POP and sending happens via
SMTP.
Even HUP the POP server but did'nt helped.Lastly rebooted the machine , no
help still....but suddenly it stared to work very next day !! what have
happened ?
> You can do that with a 486 if you want. Your p3 is big enough. Just
> upgrade your redhat, patch it to current versions (if you can still find
> up2date running for it ... 7.3 is past its end of life now I think).
doc links please!!
Thanks a lot if u have really read this complete mail...
-Dilip.M
