On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 12:31, Feizhou wrote:
> 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.
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
>
> Have you tried sendmail X then?
No, but I don't have a problem with stock sendmail now that it
runs mostly as a non-root user, always splits the reception
and delivery steps, and has the milter interface to chat with
other even less-privileged programs during the SMTP conversation.
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Les Mikesell
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