-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 06:08:20PM -0500, Chris Mauritz 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. > > > > I suspect Wietse would take issue with your definition of "comes from." I hope he would. That is why I didn't say "comes from", which would mean it was derived from qmail. It was not. > That's like saying "Mr. X started out writing device driver patches for > the linux kernel...so any subsequent software he writes must come from > Linux." That is not what I said, as I'm sure you know, since you read it. > Postfix is VERY different than qmail. Care to compare Exim with S/Mail ? They are VERY different. Never the less, S/Mail was the basis of Exim. Just check pre-1.0 versions of both (Postfix and Exim) and you will see what I mean. []s - -- Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob at suespammers.org> "Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" "Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDli5tpdyWzQ5b5ckRAlYUAJ4w9avImQ7eObwG11bYNr1p+f4OFQCfaWZ8 O6w1S/bulmA+3zVF+7mRV/o= =xOVT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----