On Monday 25 August 2003 12:59 pm, Andrew Marlow wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >Andrew Marlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Is support for zmailer planned? > > > >No. I don't think it's worth supporting because of how few people use > >zmailer. You're actually the first person on this list in two and a > >half years who has even mentioned zmailer. > > Oh dear. > > >> The closest MTA that is supported that I can have on my system is > >> postfix but I have just moved from postfix to zmailer. > > > >Is there a specific reason you did this? > > Yes. When I started to look at postfix, as a move away from > sendmail, I started to look at the documentation on-line > and found that there was no PDF. I considered that I might be > able to contribute to postfix in the area of documentation, > so I downloaded it to see what sort of a project it was and > to see if I might be able to contribute. Having been burnt > badly in the past the first thing I went to check was the > source code license. Its the IPL (IBM Public License). > But this was after some searching. It's not obvious from > the web site. I mentioned this to the author and got > a very rude response that indicated my help would not > be welcome. > > Whatever open source MTA I use I want there to be > a possibility that I might be able to contribute > in areas such as bug reports, enhancement requests, > fixes and documentation improvements. But in order > for this to happen the license needs to be clear > and GPL'like, and there should be a reasonable chance > that contributions will be accepted or at least considered. > zmailer seems to offer more scope than postfix. > Wietse Venema has spent years developing postfix and has worked with people who have used almost as long as he has. It is clearly designed for use on the NIXes and has man files, readme, HTML and heavily documented sample configuration files in addition to a web site with a host of links to other ancillary sites.
Now along comes you, who knows little about postfix and you want to "help" change/improve/redesign/add to/etc., the documentation. I don't know what Wietse said to you, but it was mild in comparison to what I would have said. The reason one chooses an MTA is that it fulfills their technical requirements and is understandable to them, not that it gives them a feeling of "belonging". Oh yes, was there any reason you expected him to embrace a proprietary format for the documentation? -- Robin Lynn Frank | Director of Operations | Paradigm-Omega, LLC Email acceptance policy: http://paradigm-omega.com/email_policy.html Our current s$p%a&m-t*r#a^p: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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