Re: Why Red Hat is not distributing qmail

[D. J. Bernstein]

Rask Ingemann Lambertsen writes:
>   CNAME lookup failed temporarily.
> Only two addresses to guess from.

qmail 1.03 skips CNAME lookups for sender addresses.

Why am I still seeing requests for features that I added in 1997? Is it
really so hard to imagine that qmail has changed since you installed it?

It's particularly harmful for the qmail community when people complain
about compatibility problems that were solved a long time ago:

   ... It took me three weeks to get everything switched from /var/mail
   and .forward to ~/Mailbox and .qmail; I don't recommend it if you
   have lots of users ...

Out-of-date statements like this are the only reason that Wietse Venema
has been able to get away with bullshit like ``qmail forces users to
change how they use the mail system.''

---Dan