From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Mar 24 8:27:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from pc-62-31-80-192-ll.blueyonder.co.uk (pc-62-31-80-192-ll.blueyonder.co.uk [62.31.80.192]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 38C5A37B400 for ; Sun, 24 Mar 2002 08:27:43 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 202 invoked from network); 24 Mar 2002 16:01:01 -0000 Received: from spatula.home (HELO cream.org) (192.168.0.4) by myriad.home with SMTP; 24 Mar 2002 16:01:01 -0000 Message-ID: <3C9DF87D.5050306@cream.org> Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 16:02:05 +0000 From: Andrew Boothman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020311 X-Accept-Language: en-gb, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Benjamin Krueger Cc: Courtney Thomas , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: qmail (Was: Maintaining Access Control Lists ) References: <20020323002608.B20699@rain.macguire.net> <3C9C84CF.2090300@flash.net> <20020323084327.A354@rain.macguire.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [Moved from -questions] Benjamin Krueger wrote: > > Barring that, network daemons that run out of inetd can use tcp wrappers (the >/etc/hosts.allow system). This has a flexible system for configuring access to >various daemons from the network, however has the unfortunate achilles heel of being >entirely dependant on inetd to pick up traffic for it and spawn a new instance of >the daemon to run it. I've heard reports of tcpserver of qmail fame doing the same >thing, and even with some speed gains, but I'm not a big fan of the author or his works. >hosts_options(5) for more information. > Benjamin, I was interested about what you said about qmail and its author. I've recently started playing with qmail to investigate what mail server I prefer, but I agree that there is perhaps something a little strange about its author. I don't know what, perhaps its just that I find qmail.org such a weird site. What's your take on the situation? Andrew. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message