Re: Bug#457318: ITP: qmail -- a secure, reliable, efficient, simple message transfer agent

[Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org>]

On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 04:20:37PM +0000, Stephen Gran wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, Wouter Verhelst said:
> > 
> > I'd agree that there are way better ones out there. But I'd also say
> > that it doesn't really matter which is best, and that this type of
> > behaviour is quite childish. As long as qmail is free, packaged
> > properly, and integrates well with the rest of Debian, I don't see why
> > anyone should oppose its packaging.
> > 
> > Whether or not it's a good MTA, the fact is that it's a *popular* MTA.
> > That alone should be a good reason to package it.
> 
> I don't agree with this, actually.  qmail is so poorly designed it can't
> stay running without a supervisor, and in it's default state is a
> giant producer of backscatter.

I said "packaged properly, and integrates well with the rest of Debian".

This is not -devel, so I'll leave the rest of my argument as an
exercise to the reader.

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