Top posting so people who wish to ignore it can see my responses without reading the entire message.
Well, you do get what you pay for sometimes and sometimes not. The whole point of it being Open Source is that if you see something you don't like, you can change it and submit it back to the original author(s).
Looking through the code I see...
ifdef's used around various configuration options. Dunno how else you would do it. grep ifdef on some of the *BSD or Linux source code sometime.
Null terminated strings? Not really, a few (and I mean a few) here and there, mainly when adding a domain to one of the SQL databases. The default vpasswd structure uses counted strings, separated by : to define the user structure. If he's talking about the cdb storage, that's a problem with CDB and not vpopmail.
Fixed length buffers I can't really comment on since I'm originally a Cobol programmer and I now use php and perl mainly. If he found it a big enough problem, he could have fixed it and sent the patches to the authors.
I won't even go into the politics and money aspect of recommending custom software design by a third party. You might as well buy MS products and get locked in that way instead :)
Just my 2 cents.
Regards,
Rick
Robin Bowes wrote:
Hi,
I read this today on the qmail list.
This is not the first bad word I've heard said against vpopmail.
Would the any of the authors care to respond?
R.
---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: Re: 1 domain on 3 different location problem From: "Russell Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, July 23, 2003 2:33 pm To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------------
Peter Mikeska writes: > I have qmail+vpopmail for company.com, but they have 3 departments located in other cities, these 3 locations are connected on slow lines. Problem is, that poeople in all 3 locations using same domain for mail adresses.
Yup, that's a problem. Fortunately, there's a solution. Enumerate all the local users on each machine, and insert them into virtualdomains like this (using example.com instead of company.com):
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:alias-forward [EMAIL PROTECTED]:alias-forward [EMAIL PROTECTED]:alias-forward ....
And then you need a ~alias/.qmail-forward file which has this:
|forward [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have no idea how to make this work with vpopmail. I don't use
vpopmail, nor do I recommend that anybody else use it. I've read the code
for vpopmail, and although it's written to industry standards, it's crap. Total and unmitigated crap. Fixed-length buffers
everywhere, #ifdef every time you turn around, null-terminated strings
instead of counted strings, it's crap; crap, crap, crap. I understand
that not everybody can afford a custom-crafted solution from Crynwr
Software, but sometimes you only get what you pay for in the open
source world.
