Hi, This discussion seems to keep getting side tracked with
``program X does not support feature Y'' type statements. In the case of qmail at least, I'd just like to emphasise that every feature that I've wanted (or seen asked for on the qmail list), that is not explicitly included in qmail, can be reasonably easily implemented with other OS tools, and minor qmail configuration changes. I take this as an indication that the design of qmail is fundamentally correct, and that the inclusion of these features into qmail itself would in fact just be creeping featureism. The same goes for the claimed denial of service attack, which is really only a configuration/documentation problem. Admittedly, qmail would benefit from a few more HOWTO type documents, but that is where Debian can come in, with packages for ezmlm, maildir2smtp and uucp4qmail for instance, and things in /usr/doc/qmail/examples. Also admittedly, Dan Bernstein (djb) has a tendency to be rather blunt when writing to people with whom he disagrees, but this doesn't make any difference to the quality of qmail --- if anything it protects qmail from un-needed patches. I think we should seriously consider using qmail as our default MTA. It's only real weakness lies in it's documentation, and that should be reasonably easy to fix. I think we should also consider switching to Maildir/ format for mail drops, since it seems to be the only way for delivering mail securely over NFS. Cheers, Phil. P.S. people who want to try qmail should probably get hold of version 1.01 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
