On Tue, May 12, 1998 at 08:18:16AM -0400, Matthew Soffen wrote:
> You may wish to take a look at a sendmail replacement package
> called qMail (http://www.qmail.org/). It has a lot more features
> than sendmail (and is much more secure). (ie. built in mailing
> lists, mailing lists by anyone, safe even over NFS, and much more).
Qmail has its problems, too, not the least of which is that its designer
has mistakenly integrated the functionality of mailing lists into
what should be purely a mail transport agent. It is NOT the Unix Way
to combine clearly separate functions into a single program. Those who
choose to do so need to be spanked with a copy of the "The Unix Programming
Environment" by Kernighan and Thompson, an oldie but goodie which explains
why things are done as they are in the Unix world.
Not to mention that its principal designer, Dan Bernstein, while a
reasonably competent programmer, has turned out to be a complete jerk
who spends time in comp.mail.sendmail insulting and baiting sendmail's
author (Eric Allman) -- someone whose contributions to the Internet
as well as the Berkeley Unix project dwarf his own.
So, quite honestly, whatever technical merits qmail has -- and there are
a few -- are outweighed by its shortcomings and the assinine attitude of
its principal architect.
---Rsk
Rich Kulawiec
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