[CentOS] Re: Planning Mail Server (with low resources)

Tom Diehl tdiehl at rogueind.com
Wed Dec 7 02:16:45 UTC 2005


On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:

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> On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 12:12:07PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 10:33, Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
>>> So yes, you are right, Postfix was developed from scratch. But you
>>> are wrong when you say qmail was not the basis for postfix.
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>> I think a better description of the history would be to say that
>> qmail was so bad that Wietse started from scratch to write something
>> useful.  And meanwhile, the problems with sendmail that they both
>> set out to fix were solved anyway.
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> Wietse didn't write postfix because of qmail, but because of DJB.

What does any of this have to do with centos? PLEASE stop the useless
history lesson. The s/n ratio on this list has been extreamly poor during the
last few weeks. Can we please get back to meaningful discussions or in the 
absence of that have some quiet?

Regards,

Tom



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