On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 23:00, John Nemeth wrote: > } > There are third party patches available to fix this and other > } > problems. The original author, Daniel J. Bernstein, is refusing to > } > accept them or to even make the necessary changes himself. The quote > } > is still somewhat true in that out of the box, qmail is a rogue MTA > } > that doesn't behave in an acceptable manner. > }
> djb has a pretty big ego and really doesn't care what others think > of him. > > } anyone who isn't a skilled programmer is qualified to administer a qmail > } installation, what with all the patches necessary just to make it fully > } compliant. > > Your OS packaging system may have it all bundled up for you. No, that's the other problem with qmail. Apparently dbb does not believe anyone else is qualified to modify his code so the license prohibits distribution of modified versions. A distribution could completely replace the smtp component, though. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.roaringpenguin.com MIMEDefang mailing list [email protected] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
