Bennett Todd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>And a case could be made that the charming and personable way qmail
>has been represented in various public fora makes this audit-by-fire
>even better: at this point, there are enough people around the world
>who hate djb's guts and would never touch anything that he even
>advocated much less wrote, just because of how much they like his
>way of carrying on discussions in public mailing lists, that I kinda
>expect more than one person has gone wading through qmail with blood
>in his eye, desperately hoping to wipe the smug grin off djb's face
>and get him to knock off the damned gloating already. Hasn't
>happened yet. _That's_ trial by fire.
That's exactly what happened with Wietse Venema's "audit" of qmail
that turned up the qmail-smtpd DOS (which is trivially prevented by
proper installation (which INSTALL still doesn't cover, BTW)), which
prompted Dan's "audit" of Postfix that turned up the problems with the
world-writable maildrop.
-Dave
