Michael T Babcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Considering the number of useful patches that aren't part of the qmail
> distribution that the average qmail admin seems to be using, I disagree.
I disagree with the contention that the *average* qmail admin is using any
patches at all, if by average you mean the mode, and possibly even the
median.
I'm running qmail on a half-dozen different machines and I've never used a
third-party patch to qmail for anything. I've never needed to.
If your qmail installation is dependent on patches not written by Dan, I
will echo my same recommendation: Seriously consider using another MTA.
My opinion as a system administrator is that attempting to use and support
packages plus third-party patches not blessed by the package maintainer is
a recipe for disaster. With all due respect to the qmail-ldap people, for
example, I'd be much more confident in Postfix's LDAP support because it's
part of the main distribution.
I'd make an exception for ezmlm-idx, given that Dan has all but blessed it
as a good third-party product to use for people doing more than
non-trivial mailing lists, but last I'd heard, he was rather annoyed at
the qmail patches, not welcoming them. That means that he's likely to be
willing to break them without giving them a second thought in later
releases, whereas he may work closer with the ezmlm-idx folks if he
releases a new version of ezmlm.
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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
