In the immortal words of J C Lawrence ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> Given QMail's odd licensing status I'd recommend Postfix or Exim in
> preference to QMail.
Uh, this requires some clarification, and verges on FUD.
Qmail does not have an "odd licensing status". Qmail is simply _not_
_licensed_, period, because the author believes (and I personally
concur, not that that's relevant) that software licenses are
unenforceable legal fiction. (Please don't take this as an invitation
to debate the issue: the only debate that will count will happen in a
court of law, and will likely not consult any of us. :)
The "license" that qmail is distributed under is US copyright law;
nothing more and nothing less.
The practical upshot of this is simple: you can't distribute modified
copies of qmail without the author's direct approval. You may, if you
like, distribute your own modifications as patches to the source, and
you can modify it to your heart's content as long as you don't
distribute it.
If your needs require you to distribute a customized MTA outside of
your own organization, then yes, qmail is probably not for you.
Otherwise, you can feel safe to evaluate qmail vs sendmail vs postfix
on the more prosaic grounds of features, security and portability.
-n
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