Peter da Silva wrote:
On 2008-02-28, at 10:24, Tony Finch wrote:
If you run an unofficial fork then all bets are off, including DJB's
security guarantee.
I'm sorry, I can't figure out what you mean by this. Why the hell
should I care about what DJB guarantees or whether my code's
"official" or not?
By "does not compile" I guess he meant "does not compile without a
guarantee from the author" -- so I guess that means NO software compiles....
I can understand hate for qmail. Qmail's history is unique -- it was
written, then djb stopped. If qmail was any less than what it is, it
would have died. But it was so good and people loved it so much they
continued on the only way they could -- they patched it and it continues
to live to this day. It's install is different from what people are
used to, so it's weird. It does things differently, so it's hated. We
don't care. It runs, it doesn't fail. And it absolutely will not stop
delivering the mail. Once installed it gets out of your way and does
its job. Once I discovered qmail I vowed to never touch a hated
sendmail config again. Oh, an M4 config file -- now THAT will solve
the problem!
