Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 16:43:05 -0500 From: "Yarema" <yds@dppl.com> To: <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Sendmail going commercial, and ? Message-ID: <019101bd5380$00233ab0$1f40e6cd@ichiban.ingress.com>
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>So where do you see us stand: > >a. No problem at all, business as usual >b. We only sustain existing sendmail, and defer replacement until the code > athrophies enough (via missing new functionality, or just age) >c. We want to replace sendmail asap, but have a replacement in mind. >d. We need to start a new MTA project. >e. Something else which Simon did not think about. The way I see it is send mail will continue to be free. the commercial sendmail will be akin to Stronghold (a commercial, secure apache w/enhancements) as opposed to free sendmail which is akin to the free version of apache. I'm kinda fond of exim as a replacement for sendmail cuz of its compatibility with sendmail /etc/aliases and command line switches. These two considerations I feel are most important for an MTA to qualify as a drop-in replacement for sendmail. However Exim is encumbered under GPL. Which blows it out of the running as a base component of any *BSD system. Qmail is a great MTA, but in no way does it qualify as a drop in replacement for sendmail. One, it does not deliver to /var/mail, only to $HOME. That's a good thing for security, but lousy if you have lots of email users without a home directory. qmail by default does not use .forward, /etc/aliases and I don't know the extent of it's sendmail command line compatibility. On the other hand qmail does have a good license: ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/softwarelaw.html :) Or at least I like the authors interpretation of the law. Rather than replacing sendmail I would prefer to see /etc/rc* files modified in such a way as to make it easier to replace it with another MTA in a clean fashion. i.e. without having to hack the /etc/rc* files too much. -- Yarema To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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