From: Amitai Schlair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>I disagree. Newbies create newbie queries. At the risk of sounding like
>a BOFH, I'll press further: if qmail were to become even easier to
>install, more newbies would figure they could handle the job of running
>it, and we'd have _more_ newbie queries from people who, after
>installing, discovered the reality that it's _not_ easy to run a mail
>server.
A simple look at the newbie questions posted here shows that most of them
are related to issues that a binary package, integrated in the intended
environment and with a simple configuration dialog, would solve. I'm talking
compilation and simple configuration issues.
>> Given the above, it is no wonder that people increasingly use sendmail or
>> such.
>
>Is this a verifiable conclusion? Where can I see some data?
This is a empirical conclusion I obtain from the people around me. I can
also derive that conclusion from the fact that commercial packaged Linux
distributions (which come with sendmail) have a significant impact on the
final number of installations. Last but not least, it seems to me that in
this list there are *too few* newbie questions for qmail to be conquering
new grounds. Of course, the unavailability of good books on the subject also
proves something.
Armando
