Jeremy Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> You're cocky and absolutely useless.
And you're a jerk.
Actually, Dave is arguably one of the most useful people around when
it comes to qmail. Until the long-awaited O'Reilly book comes out, his
"Life with qmail" is pretty much the qmail bible.
If you don't understand what he's telling you, then go ahead and ask
questions--but you really ought to be respectful or at least polite.
As Dave said, this isn't rocket science.
Finally, Dave is correct that Dan won't add any "feature that seems to
be useful" to qmail. Remember, the SMTP server is one of the primary entry
routes for crackers, thanks to Eric Allman. Dan will not risk security or
reliability for any old feature you dream up. As Dan said before:
In general, I'm not going to blindly copy sendmail features---even
useful features. I want to understand what problem they're trying to
solve; then I'll provide the best solution for that problem.
Len.
--
On the bright side, if a local user notices the system slowing down,
he can monitor the drop directory, decide that it's probably a spammer,
and destroy all new messages, without bothering to wake up the sysadmin.
``It's not a security disaster; it's an anti-spam feature!''
-- Dan Bernstein, about Postfix
