Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 10:58:30 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> To: "Patrick Bihan-Faou" <patrick@mindstep.com>, <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Integrating QMAIL in the world Message-ID: <v04220803b5174705f280@[195.238.21.91]> In-Reply-To: <143f01bfa253$a130abd0$040aa8c0@local.mindstep.com> References: <143f01bfa253$a130abd0$040aa8c0@local.mindstep.com>
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At 2:44 PM -0400 2000/4/9, Patrick Bihan-Faou wrote: > The advantage would be that we can have a fairly decent qmail configuration > using the standard make world feature. > > Is there any interest in that kind of work ? Considering the number of qmail-specific pieces that need to be installed to support it (and the resulting domino effect), the highly negative impacts that qmail is notorious for, and that it is not intended to be a drop-in replacement for sendmail, I would be highly opposed to this change. If we are actively interested in finding a replacement for the open-source sendmail MTA, I would prefer one that was designed from the beginning with security in mind (including going so far as being intended to run in a chroot() environment), is intended to avoid undesirable behaviour as much as possible, and is intended to be a drop-in replacement for sendmail to the greatest degree possible. In other words, if we're going to be replacing sendmail with an alternative MTA, I'd prefer postfix over qmail, and I believe I can marshall some pretty strong arguments for that position. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ====================================================================== Brad Knowles, <blk@skynet.be> || Belgacom Skynet SA/NV Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue Colonel Bourg, 124 Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/12.49 || B-1140 Brussels http://www.skynet.be || Belgium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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