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. > Heh. Sendmail really was awful back then (mid-late '90's). It's gotten a lot better, but it is still comparatively slow and resource hungry. Cheers,