On 7/1/07, Res <res@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > NotDashEscaped: You need GnuPG to verify this message > > On Sat, 30 Jun 2007, Paul Lesniewski wrote: > > >> haha I'm the first to admit it used to have a LOT of serious issues > >> but in more recent years it hasn't been too bad given its pretty > >> powerfull and comprehensive feature sets, and > > > > I suppose so. Maybe its track record has irrevocably hurt its > > reputation... but it remains, AFAIK, very complex to configure any > > more interesting functionalities. > > I'd agree there. > > > > >> qmail, well, hard to > >> exploit somthing that doesnt compile on todays systems without approriate > >> patches and does nothing by default anyway :) > > > > Right, which is one big reason why I think you are off base below: > > >> Postfix, is the new kid on the block, once it starts to get serious > >> inroads as the others, it too will start to have holes, they are there, > >> like 99% of software, right now, just with small userbase, not found as > >> yet. > > > > No way. That was perhaps true in 2000, but Postfix is a big player by > > now, more so than qmail if just because it might come rolled with your > > maybe in your part of the world but certainly not in Australia. > I've used postfix and I'm far happier with Sendmail and mail than postfix Point isn't about being personally happy; I was disputing the "postfix hasn't made significant inroads yet" comment. For me, I have been very happy with Postfix, especially compared to Sendmail (you're kidding!). > Wietse is rather narrow minded when it comes to certain things, like the > way he attacks certain anti-spa/virus programers because they are not in > his "in crowd" or do things the way he wants, another reason I shy away > from postfix, DJB lost many friends many years ago with that attitude and > WV is closely following in those footsteps. Yeah, I was gonna say you can't go down that road w/out putting DJB at the forefront. :-) Perhaps it is a fine line between zealotry and making really excellent technical points. > > OS while you have to know what you are doing to even get started with > > qmail. > > I dont use any MTA rolled in a distro :) because they all hack them, I > always use source code customised to the way I want. I use Slackware on > all servers, and they try to keep as true to tarballs as possible I've > always found, but I still insist on direct MTA source tarballs > compile/install. As do I. However, the point was that that very difference means that, just like Sendmail, the more people who can just turn on software because it comes pre-installed means that that software is going to be much more frequently used than something that you can only get by putting together yourself. > > Interesting reads: > > > > http://shearer.org/MTA_Comparison > > These are written by people with, like you and I, our own person > opinions and favourites, so are essentially biased no matter what MTA you > favour. > > Just liie those that sprout the mbox V maildir, even though the tests they > show use the most well known slowest imap server known to man kind :) > > > Pretty far OT, sorry folks. > > lol, indeed :) > > > Incidently there may be a new qmail release in the future, not by DJB of > course, in fact one quetions if he's even still alive. Huh. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ -- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting Guidelines: http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/MailingListPostingGuidelines List Address: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx List Archives: http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
