On 2006-02-17 20:22:56 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 18:19, Elliot Foster wrote: > > Also, sendmail has been around for a little bit longer > > (10+ years?) than qpsmtpd,
More like 20 years.
> > so it's not suprising to see that it has more features. :)
>
> Yes, but what's the point in duplicating features in free
> software?
Scratching itches. I've been using sendmail for a long time, and I liked
it less and less the longer I used it. There are a lot of options and
features which sometimes interact in wierd ways, and if you need things
which the sendmail authors haven't anticipated (or which you can't
find in the README.cf) you have to write sendmail macros, which - for me
- are plainly write only. It did itch me, and the itch was growing
over the years.
Qpsmtpd was perfect for me: It is small. It is written and extended
in perl, which is a language I use daily, and not in an arcane pattern
substitution language which I need only once every couple of years. It
is only an SMTP server, and not also an SMTP client, MDA, queue manager,
etc. It has a nice plugin system. So I can simply make it do what I want
in an hour or an afternoon, and - most importantly - understand what I
have done a year later.
It scratched my itch.
hp
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