What's wrong with distributing a security fix as a patch only, to the source
code of qmail?
While I personally would not be so pedantic about a software system as Dan
is, I also don't see any significant problem with it. People already make
their own patches to add features to qmail. I don't see why Red Hat can't
just distribute qmail as a source RPM only, and plan to offer any security
fixes as patches to that source. That might mean that it won't be quite as
easy to run qmail as to run sendmail on Red Hat Linux. But, IMHO, running
something like a serious mail server should be deliberately, not casually,
done. Red Hat and other distributions, and the Unix systems from most of
the vendors, tends to make running server systems too casual. Perhaps more
security and other problems will occur as a result of so many people running
a casual server.
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