Qmail MTA

qmail is a modern SMTP server which makes sendmail obsolete, written by Dan Bernstein, who also has a web page for qmail. qmail is a secure package. You can download qmail 1.03 (Redhat RPMs, Mandrake RPMs, and Debian .debs, and OpenBSD ports) and redistribute qmail for free. You can get the "big picture" of how qmail is organized. You should read Life with qmail.

There is a discussion list and an announcements list for qmail users, maintained by Dan Bernstein using qmail, of course. There's also an archive. You can search it. It's also archived at eGroups, The Aims Group, and at SecurePoint. Charles Cazabon has written some guidelines for posting to the list. There is also an FAQ, providing answers to frequently-asked questions.

Dan's updated FAQ is also available in other file formats, and in Spanish.

Inetd is no longer recommended for use with qmail 1.03. Use tcpserver instead. Running qmail in the background ("csh -cf '/var/qmail/rc &'") is no longer recommended. Use daemontools instead.

A number of large Internet sites are using qmail: Hotmail's outgoing mail (although Microsoft thinks they're going to transition to W2K), USA.net's outgoing email, Address.com, Rediffmail.com, Colonize.com, Yahoo! mail, Network Solutions, Verio, MessageLabs (searching 20M emails/week for malware), listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu (a big listserv hub, using qmail since 1996), Ohio State (biggest US University), onelist.com (which has merged with egroups, another big free mailing list service), Listbot, USWest.net (Western US ISP), RIPE, Matchlogic, Telenordia, gmx.de (German ISP), NetZero (free ISP), Critical Path (email outsourcing service w/ 15M mailboxes), PayPal/Confinity, Hypermart.net, Casema, Pair Networks, Topica, MyNet.com.tr, FSmail.net, and vuurwerk.nl.

Added:  Tuesday, January 07, 2003
Reviewer:  Charles Maguire
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