On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, likot wrote:
>
> --- Federico Sevilla III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > On Wed, 15 Aug 2001 at 19:01, Ian C. Sison wrote:
> > I join Ian with this rant of his. I've used QMail
> > before, and because you
> > need to install so many other things aside from
> > QMail, it turns out to be
> > an unglamorous setup to maintain (in my view, at
> > least).
> :) what thing i can say those so many other things to
> install with qmail was infact a good choice :) djb
> gave us system administrators tools ( alternatives )
> which is in my opinion like with many others, BETTER.
>
> tcpserver is a replacement for inetd in qmail( inetd
> has so many problems specially with concurrency and
> with resources)
I'd rather go with xinetd.
> > from DJB's apps, I don't know what use his tools.
> > Unlike Wietse Venema's
> > tcpwrappers, which seems to be the de facto and will
>
> defacto / standards doesnt mean better
> tcpwrappers is good but don't close your eyes there
> are other tools around
The fact that major distros adopt tcp wrappers _should mean something_(TM)
i'm sure they didn't close their eyes either. Although i must admit that
one major issue with djb tools that hinders their adoption is that they
aren't really open source.
> attitude problem? aren't we all have attitude problems
> too :)
True, but some are worse than others.
> postfix is good as to opinions i find postfix not my
> taste, tried it but was less appealing ( and i really
> love qmail + ldap :) )
I can say that i'm on the other side, i've tried both postfix and qmail,
and i found qmail less appealing. To each his own i guess.
> matagal ng nag tutunggali tong dalawang to but their
> competition made their work better
Agreed.
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