Jim Maul wrote: > Well sorry to disappoint, but there is no recent support to my claims. > Indeed i do not wish to start any quarrels with anyone so i hope that does > not happen here. I was simply basing my claims on the history of the > software. I do not run sendmail so i can not vouch for its current > security. Simply put, i do not need all the fancy stuff that sendmail > supports. Ease of installation/use is the main reason i use qmail. > > It all comes down to what YOU need your mta to do. Neither is better/worse > than any other.
It's down to features needed and personal preference. With the exception of software by Dan Bernstein :-). > IMHO the problem with sendmail is that when it was > designed, the author had NO idea just how popular it was going to be. Had > he known, im sure it would have been designed differently. You shouldn't underestimate how different the world was then. Sendmail started life as "delivermail", which predated *both* TCP/IP and SMTP, and was released in 1979. Mail then was implemented as a series of hackish extensions tacked onto the FTP protocol, which rode on top of the old ARPANET NCP protocol. This software evolved into sendmail with the advent of SMTP. When sendmail was released with SMTP support, DNS was not yet in use - the Internet was small enough that name resolution *all* happened via /etc/hosts, which people periodically ftp'ed new copies of. The design of sendmail was probably the best available at the time. People moan about sendmail.cf, but the reason it looks like it does is that it was designed for rapid parsing on machines that were barely more capable than calculators by today's standards. No-one then had any idea how big the internet would become, or how important email would be. > On a (not so) side not, does sendmail support maildirs? I tried finding the > answer to this on the website, but no luck. Not directly, but this is fundamental to sendmail's operation. Sendmail does not perform final delivery to local mailboxes, it just hands the message off to a "delivery agent" program. So you just need a delivery agent that supports maildir, which I believe procmail does. The exception to the above is when local delivery happens over LMTP, which sendmail implements directly. Delivery to Cyrus mail spools happens this way, for example. Mike. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Clamav-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-users
