Re: [vps-mail] SpamAssassin on VPS 2

[Scott Wiersdorf <scottw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 12:21:12PM -0500, Peter M. Abraham wrote:
> >"  d) do they all pass now?"
> 
> No.
> 
> >"if answer to d) was "no", you've somehow broken your VPS v2 
> >setup.   Congrats! End of quiz."
> 
> Joy ;_) Thoughts on how to fix?

Heheh...

Well, hrm, you could post some of the errors to this list or to the
spamassassin mailing lists and see if anyone can spot what might be
wrong. Getting a Perl expert's eyes would be well worth the money if
SA is that valuable to your operations.

> >"Qmail is otherwise unsupported--might want to try sendmail."
> 
> Qmail is more secure ;-)

That's certainly debatable. Ah yes. Everyone loves to read the qmail
homepage about its design goals being improved performance and
security over sendmail, etc. That was true when it was originally
written (each MTA's design reflects the era in which it was written),
but sendmail has evolved quicker and better than most people realize
and has very much stayed a "modern" MTA, even moreso now than qmail
in many cases.

Qmail is now trying hard to play catchup with things like sendmail
milters, sendmail's access file, and sendmail's implementation of SMTP
which, while less efficient out of the box (though certainly adequate
and highly tunable), is not prone to qmail's queuing problems; once
the reason for qmail's performance boost, it is now the reason for
qmail's performance drag with an increasingly large percentage of
email being forged trash (qmail showing its age in the age of email
deception and DoS attacks).

But, enough of that... We use qmail on the Signature product, of
course, and have been largely satisfied with it. If you like it, more
power to you.

> Outside of that, we are using VPS 2's as extensions to our H-Sphere 
> (http://www.psoft.net/) hosting cluster.  H-Sphere utilizes qmail as their 
> mail server.

I see, well, you do what you have to, I guess.

Scott
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