On Thu, 28 May 1998, Trevor Astrope wrote:
> This may be closer than you think. There is already work amongst qmail
> users and DJB to put together a DJB approved binary rpm distribution.
> Red Hat could simply use the DJB approved rpm in future releases.
Use zmailer or vmailer. Both do better than qmail, and both have at least
as good if not better performance. I run zmailer, albeit on my
has-no-mail-traffic home system, and think it is Pretty Doggone Cool :)
If you're running mailing lists to exploders, zmailer will definitely be
faster, since it can send multiple messages over a single SMTP connection
(something qmail does only with an add-on hack).
Besides the performance improvements & etc., zmailer and vmailer also have
the advantage of being released under a sane license (zmailer is GPL'd,
vmailer is probably X11-ish) As long as Mr. Bernstein insists that he and
only he knows whether a distributable binary is good or bad, he is severly
limiting the use of his product :) It is impractical for the maintainers
of any distribution to have to ask him whenever they make the tiniest
change to a package. It's easier to add the qmail features you like to
[vz]mailer (zmailer basically lets you write shell scripts to route,
filter, and process mail, along with a nice set of built in functions)
than to argue with a person who stoutly refuses to change a "broken"
license.
_I speak only for myself_,
-- Elliot
When I die, I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather...
...not yelling and screaming like the people in the back of the
plane he was flying.
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