Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 10:34:58 +0100 From: Jos Backus <J.G.E.Backus@urc.tue.nl> To: Yarema <yds@dppl.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail going commercial, and ? Message-ID: <19980320103458.B8991@asterix.urc.tue.nl> In-Reply-To: <019101bd5380$00233ab0$1f40e6cd@ichiban.ingress.com>; from Yarema on Thu, Mar 19, 1998 at 04:43:05PM -0500 References: <019101bd5380$00233ab0$1f40e6cd@ichiban.ingress.com>
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On Thu, Mar 19, 1998 at 04:43:05PM -0500, Yarema wrote: > Qmail is a great MTA, but in no way does it qualify as a drop in replacement > for sendmail. Hm... > One, it does not deliver to /var/mail, only to $HOME. Delivery to /var/mail has security problems, but despite this qmail can easily be configured to do it. See ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/qmail/vsm.txt. > That's a good thing for security, but lousy if you have lots of email users > without a home directory. You can deal with these in an even more flexible manner using the qmail-users mechanism. > qmail by default does not use .forward, Right. There is the dot-forward package for those who want/need it. But .qmail files have much richer (and more well-defined) semantics than .forward files. > /etc/aliases qmsmac handles these, in a more generic fashion even. The bottom line is that qmail's design is very modular, which explains its flexibility. It is also easy to set up, which can be a boon to novices. > and I don't know the extent of it's sendmail command line compatibility. I'd rate it being pretty good and sufficient for my needs... > 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. A good idea at any rate. Cheers, -- Jos Backus _/ _/_/_/ "Reliability means never _/ _/ _/ having to say you're sorry." _/ _/_/_/ -- D. J. Bernstein _/ _/ _/ _/ jbackus@urc.tue.nl _/_/ _/_/_/ use Std::Disclaimer; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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