On 05/31/2013 12:27 AM, Philip Hands wrote: > Well, I'd say that at least part of the motivation was actually to write > a qmail replacement, that didn't have someone with DJB's atitute to > licensing as upstream -- it was for a long time called vmailer > (v==vapour) as coined by DJB, and adopted by Wietse because it amused > him. > > Given that it was qmail inspired, which was writen with the similar > approach of having a crowd of distinct daemons perfornming one task > each, with a UID for each, I'd say that the intent was to match qmail's > security focus. > > If one were simply trying to replace Sendmail, the result might well > have looked a lot more like Exim, with a monolithic executable, that > forks into the various roles required.
Well, in that case, it failed to be as simple to configure as qmail. Even though I've switch to Postfix so long ago that I can't remember, I still prefer the way to configure Qmail. Which I don't use anymore for unrelated very valid reasons... like the deferred bounce (which since have been fixed), but that's not all, and I believe any (old) Qmail user know what I have in mind! :) Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/51b0ac75.7020...@debian.org
