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VMailer (Was: Status of qmail?)



On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 09:22:16PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
>  >What's vmailer like wrt configuration and such?  Is it as easy as qmail? 
>  >.qmail files blow .forward files out of the water.

> You can find some examples on Wietse Venema's site. Start from
> www.vmailer.org.

I found it last night on irc.  Looked at the page, impressive if it does
what it claims it will.  Pretty impressive with what it does NOW in the
alpha versions.  I'm hoping we'll see this MTA become serious competition,
it is a superior design--even though it doesn't appear to support system
wide MDA at this time.  That is after all a simple thing to add to a modular
program.

I'm also concerned that apparently some part of IBM is involved in some way. 
The license terms have not been spelled out, but the word "freeware" has
been used.  The question I have:  Is his planned license going to meet the
DFSG?  Based on what I've seen on the site, the author will probably be
happy to put it under DFSG-free license, and that point will be a major
competition issue between it and qmail.


Based on what I've read here, most think I haven't got a chance in hell of
convincing DJB that a DFSG-free license is a good thing.  If that's the
case, I'll be happy to trade qmail for a free program.

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