Hi, welcome to 2026,
Why are people still running #qmail?
** STOCK ** qmail from the last millenium, when the imac was the new hotness, CRTs were a thing and hopefully The Beastie Boys were long gone never to be seen again.
postfix 27
qmail 30 (undead)
exim 31
sendmail 43
Today's #spam comes from #qmail
Software abandoned by its creator in 1998 is still being installed today. It has definitely not kept up with the times. Especially its major design failure, accepting anything.
Which makes Postfix's creator, Mr Venema, awesome.
Friend's don't let friends use qmail.
Today's #spam comes from secure.ne.jp
Because they use #qmail
Well, not just that but it surely isn't helping to be running something the author abandoned nearly 30 years ago.
No spam filters.
Allowing customers to enter anything as a forwarding destination with no validation what so ever.
...
Can anyone in Japan defend why they are still using #qmail in this day and age?
It's not still because of that stupid book, is it?
(Today's #spam problems, and there are a lot of them, are all caused by QMAIL being designed for the stone age...)
#qmail lacks #TLS. #notqmail doesn't include it either (yet!). But if you install from #pkgsrc…
# chown qmaild:nofiles control/servercert.pem
# chmod 640 control/servercert.pem
# ln -s control/servercert.pem control/clientcert.pem
# update_tmprsadh
# /etc/rc.d/qmail restart
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Sadly, #qmail is not capable of dealing with today's #spam.
Then we have Japanese providers who still install something abandoned by its creator in the 20th Century.
Hi. This is the qmail-send program at /e4.valueserver.jp.
And muggins here gets to deal with the stupid.
In private mail today: "Thank you very much for creating schmonz.com/software/acc..., it really is the most elegant solution to modernize #qmail."
In the same message: "Is this a bug in acceptutils or did I make a configuration mistake?" A bug, and now I'm freshly motivated to fix!
“notqmail remains a uniquely challenging #LegacyCode rehabilitation project, and 1.09 is merely a solid, long-overdue release that includes the work of a couple dozen new contributors.”
notqmail 1.09 is here: schmonz.com/2024/05/07/n...
#qmail #notqmail #smtp #OpenSource
