[lug] Communigate Pro anyone

[Nate Duehr]

Matt Clauson wrote:

> Used to work with it several jobs ago.  Web control interface, fairly
> slick...  But I still don't honestly see the point of paying for a
> mailserver.

Agreed with Matt on this one... there were only two features that looked 
interesting to me...

One was that it supposedly will do Calendaring for MS client users.

The other was the "dynamic clustering" they claim to have -- multiple 
servers doing the mail and if a box fails, life goes on.

Check out www.qmailrocks.org for a step-by-step site on how to do build 
a qmail server with almost all of the goodies mentioned.  One major 
missing piece on qmailrocks' site is SSL tunnels, but stunnel can handle 
that part as a bolt-on.  In fact I'm sure the site owner would accept 
any and all help to continue to update the document there, but it's 
pretty good right now.

I've been a dyed-in-the-wool exim fan for a number of years now, but 
having recently had to admin two different qmail boxes, I've definitely 
warmed up to its flexibility, etc.  Some don't like Dan Bernstein's 
licensing (no binary distribution without permission) for his software 
(qmail, djbdns, etc...) but I must admit that qmail really gets the job 
done on very busy servers...

Nate, nate at natetech.com