On Tue, May 12, 1998 at 11:56:52PM -0400, Matthew Soffen wrote:
> At 08:56 AM 5/12/98 -0400, you wrote:
> Then by that logic, Eric Allman should be spanked. It is a
> monolithic program that runs as root doing all the aspects of
> receiving mail and sending it.
Nope, not at all. It's written in the style of a traditional Unix
daemon, and functions solely as a MTA, and not anything else. You're
not buying into Bernstein's widely publicized propaganda on
comp.mail.sendmail, are you?
> Well.. I don't know much about Eric Allman. All I can say is
> that I will never use Sendmail again. After having a person use
> my mail server as a spam relay I changed to qmail. Qmail is much
> better in the simple fact that "right out of the box" it denies
> relaying. Sendmail by design is wide open.
Depends on how you configure it. *My* mail servers have never been
wide open "right out of the box" because I actually read the release
notes and installation instructions and followed them.
BTW, I know quite a bit about Eric Allman. His contributions to
Unix and to the 'net are immense and span nearly a 20-year period.
Bernstein is, at this point, a jealous wanna-be.
> >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.
>
> So you condemn the entire program (which you just admitted has
> merits) because you dislike the designer of it ?
No, I don't condemn the program -- in fact, I *didn't*. I simply pointed
out that the program's merits are outweighed by the fact that it's
principal architect is a jerk. Since I have my choice of which
pieces of software to run -- and my choice of which pieces of software
my various clients run -- and since I'm quite adept at sendmail, which
I find more than adequate for the job *if configured properly* --
that's what I choose to use.
Creating a better mousetrap is a fine idea, but it's also a completely
unneccesary effort if you learn to use the one you already have.
---Rsk
Rich Kulawiec
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