Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 10:25:24 -0500 From: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: postfix or qmail? Message-ID: <200506181025.25239.kirk@strauser.com> In-Reply-To: <200506181124.09562.l0kit0@exactas.org> References: <200506181124.09562.l0kit0@exactas.org>
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On Saturday 18 June 2005 06:24 am, Luciano Musacchio wrote:
> I've a simple question, postfix or qmail? :)
My choice is Postfix. It's still under active development and isn't hamper=
ed=20
by bizarre licensing and enormous egos.
=46urthermore, Qmail seems to have earned its reputation for security the=20
standard DJB way: by implementing only the easy parts of the standard and=20
complaining loudly about the hard parts ("those are insecure!") until=20
everyone quits asking for them.
> Other thing (perhaps, the one that I interest more your opinion), do anyo=
ne
> know why MacOS X Server is using postfix instead of qmail?
All technical debates aside, Qmail isn't F/OSS software. They couldn't shi=
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it without getting a custom license.
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Kirk Strauser
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