Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 19:58:56 +0100 From: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> To: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: postfix or qmail? Message-ID: <42B46EF0.1080406@dial.pipex.com> In-Reply-To: <200506181025.25239.kirk@strauser.com> References: <200506181124.09562.l0kit0@exactas.org> <200506181025.25239.kirk@strauser.com>
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Kirk Strauser wrote:
>My choice is Postfix. It's still under active development and isn't hampered
>by bizarre licensing and enormous egos.
>
>
Active development has to be the killer argument. Who wants to rely on
software that no-one cares enough about to develop properly?
>Furthermore, Qmail seems to have earned its reputation for security the
>standard DJB way: by implementing only the easy parts of the standard and
>complaining loudly about the hard parts ("those are insecure!") until
>everyone quits asking for them.
>
>
DJB?
>On Saturday 18 June 2005 10:21 am, Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
>
>> It has some interesting tricks (an email address like "user" can
>>> automatically have aliases like "user-*)
>>
>>
>
>
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Kirk Strauser wrote:
>In Postfix's main.cf:
>
> recipient_delimiter (default: empty)
> The separator between user names and address extensions (user+foo).
>
>I set mine to "+" and use it all the time whenever I give out my address
>(although I subscribed to this mailing list before I migrated to Postfix so
>you won't see it on my messages here). For example, my listed address on
>Slashdot is "kirk+slashdot@strauser.com".
>
>
Learn something every day, thanks! Guess my postfix instinct was
justified :-)
--Alex
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