asantos wrote:
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> 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.
Being a newbie and all, I figured I'd interject here. Call me weird, but
I *like* the way qmail is distributed and actually got pissed at Debian
for doing it the "right" way. Having all my qmail config files and
binaries in one place makes things a lot simpler for me. I do wonder
though, why is qmail distributed like this? To piss people off? :)
As far as people using qmail, it's basically the same reason some people
still use Windows. Other MTA's were already there and people already
know how to use them, distributions ship with them, tons of software is
coded with them in mind. I know people that get seriously pissed off if
they ever have to mess with a box that happens to have something other
sendmail/bind installed on it.
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