On 30/10/03 23:52 +0530, Payal Rathod wrote: <snip> > I would strongly recommend qmail. > Listen, qmail has a very strong philosophy about mailing and if you sit > back and think about it, you will find that the author is right about > most of things. It is much secure and easy to install a server which > does not provide all solutions out-of-box. Perhaps you would like Net::Server? Or Todd Bennett's SMTPprox suitably modified? Some of us like simple config files and filesystem standards compliance, with tools which can flex to our requirements. (Which is why I like Perl and C and Postfix -- simple, flexible and powerful).
> e.g. in a normal office, you do not need pop-before-smtp or > smtp-auth, you can just have ip based relaying. So, no need to have > these codes included by the mail server. If you want this functionality > the code is available (third party, but audited). POP before SMTP is not a SMTP function. It doesn't need a SMTP patch (unless you use DRAC). > An analogy would be if I wanted to display logs on my webserver, would I > install apache just for that? No, I will be using some small webserver. > Similarly, I would never use proftpd or wuftpd for simple ftp. More like if you want to just serve static content fast, use Tux. > If you are taking on a larger scale then you would need to recompile the > code and patch it. If you cannot do that then you have no business to Why? Properly designed code will just scale up. You need to design your architecture properly. > run a mail server. Sorry, qmail won't give an out-of-box pack for that. > I rather depend on few hundred thousand lines of securly written and > easy to use program than a big boalty package which has/had security > holes but provides all functionality. I like a small, securely written program which gives me all the bells and whistles supported by the author. To each their own. Diversity is good. Devdas Bhagat ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
