Scott D. Yelich writes:
> Just my opinion. I got sendmail 8.9.3 and ran the ./Build. I edited
> the .mc like the readme/installs said and ran m4. Make install and I
> was up and running. It it a single program, sendwhale, with a few side
> programs -- but they're all in one package.
Sendmail is not a Unix program. It is an NT program that someone
ported to Unix twenty years ago. Unix programs use lots of little
executables and tie them together. Unix programs use pipes. Unix
programs make good use of the shell.
> How many programs does qmail have? I've lost count... I have qmail,
> ezmlm, dotforward, accustamp, cyclog, tcp-env, tcpserver, setuser,
> rblsmtpd, qmail-pop3d, checkpassword, maildrop, qmail-popup, qmail-smtpd
> (and all the other qmail- programs), and I'm sure I'm overlooking at
> least a dozen more (or ones that I haven't even come across yet).
Modularity is good.
> And, to top all of this off, the docs suck!
Buy the book in September.
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