Re: The Heart Is An Open Source: A Romance
Hey,
Just wanted to let you know that postfix is the greatest thing that ever hap-
pened to mail. Setup was incredibly easy (i wasn't good enough to get send-
mail working on my server), but postfix was up and *working* in five minutes,
without even reading any doc (which could be a bad thing...)
Oh yeah, could someone send me a copy of that letter, it seems that i accidentally deleted it before getting a chance to read...
Cameron Matheson
On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 12:10:16PM -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Damon Muller wrote:
>
> > I've got to say, this is the first 100+ line message I've read on the
> > list for ages, and it was worth every prescious second!
> >
> > We *are* amused :)
>
>
> Thanks. When I'm trying to avoid real work, I can get very inspired.
>
> >
> > <blantant troll>
> > Although a real man would have been running qmail and courier-imap...
> > </blantant troll>
> >
>
> Actually, that's a valid question. Sendmail, for better or worse, is the
> industry standard. Sendmail knowledge has come in quite handy for me on
> Solaris etc. Of course it is crufty beyond compare and it remains to be
> seen how long they can keep patching up its' basically flawed design but
> for now it remains one of the workhorses of the Internet.
>
>
> qmail on the other hand, I've only seen used on Linux and FreeBSD. Also I
> don't quite get the point of maildirs. Yes they're supposed to be
> "better" but I've not really seen any difference in real life. Plus there
> are the annoying license restrictions. One of these days I'll take a good
> look at postfix, it seems to be as secure and well-designed but plays more
> nicely with others than qmail. Exim, for some reason I've always thought
> of as a toy. But my information is probably years out of date.
>
>
> btw, I wish to call to the attention of the readers a little omission in
> my story. You also have to add the new domain to /etc/mail/relay-domains.
> In the bad old days, sendmail let any mail go through by default thus
> allowing spammers unlimited access. Now it does the opposite. It will
> refuse to deliver mail that comes from any domain except those listed in
> this file.
>
>
> --
> Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar@debian.org>
>
>
>
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