On Fri, Mar 02 2001, Charles Cazabon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> impressed with the modularity of qmail. The only patches I see as
> necessary anywhere are big-concurrency and big-todo. Everything else is
> just sugar.
Yes. In the past I wrote patches to qmail but these are just salted the
otherwise tasty meal. I wrote additions what can improves qmail and can
make it more modular, but I think patches should be gone. Extensions *are*
the way.
I understood that DJB written qmail not for us, but for the idea of creating
a standards-compliant, secure mta. In other words, features aren't in the
first line in the extension lists, and weird features aren't in the list at
all. LDAP queries are can be handled by extensions, by replacing
qmail-getpw. The whole local user lookup can be replaced this way.
And yes, big-concurrency and big-todo can be an included patch candidate,
but I think only the dns patch is neccessary to work correctly.
--
Nagy Balazs, LSC
http://www.lsc.hu/
