Sam wrote:
> > Security is top priority in qmail, as far as I know, but
> > how come the nice security support feature like DSN is out of questions?
>
> Very funny. Thanks for a good laugh. DSNs offer no security whatsoever.
>
My pleasure, that's is IMHO, and thank you for the credit.
> No, it is important, and I agree that DSNs are superior to Return-Receipts,
> and provide very usefull functionality. However, I urge you to read RFCs
> 1891 through 1894, and see for yourself what a bitch they are to implement
> in any mail server. People who write free or semi-free stuff do it in
> their spare time, and all of them have paying day jobs. If you set out to
> design a mail server from scratch, given a right design, I suppose, the
> implementation of DSN can be done reasonably well. However, retro-fitting
> DSN into an existing mail server is unlikely to be a very easy thing to do,
> and is probably more trouble than its worth. The most likely result is
> some monstrosity that you'll spend the next two years debugging, before it
> works properly.
>
I'll get those RFC, I really appreciate your advice. I am just an ordinary user asking
about feature that I had with my old mail server, and don't have intention to urge
developer to implement that.
> > At least I know that this qmail community is as friendly and helpful as any other
> > Linux community.
>
> Qmail community is not a Linux community.
>
Really? Never mind, at least I already got a response ;), Thank you very much!
Best regards,
Ferri Andy Ch.
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