Bill Hacker wrote:
Aaron Stone wrote:
Writing an MTA something like opening Pandora's box. Well, except that
Pandora's box will ravage humanity quickly and if you survive that,
you're OK.
<snip>
The problem that I have with DBMail goes beyond inaccurate (dare I say
broken?) Postgresql setup docs.
DBMail requires me to make *more* and to boot, *more complex* manual
changes to, for example, Sendmail files than I would have to make with
friendlier toolsets to, the commonly used but definitely 'kit built'
Qmail+patches+Courier-IMAP+VpopMail+SquirrelMail+<whatever>...etc.
-just to name one..
Though, in fairness, fewer manual edits than I would have to make to,
say the 'full' courier-mta package.
Granted, Postix (sendmail.exe on my Warp 4.5 boxen) is easier, and so
too would Exim perhaps be... not all possible settings need to be
touched. But neither of these, nor Sendmail, have their own IMAP or
necessarily even POP3, so it is back to 'kit building'.
What about a standard package like postfix-dbmail, that depends
on both postfix and dbmail for this or that distribution? Which
contains the `manual´ changes you need to do to the configuration
files.
My belief is that you can edit quite a lot config files for an
already written software package, before you spend more time than
you do to write your own package.
/Magnus
