On Thu, 28 May 1998, Elliot Lee wrote:
>
> 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).
I've never used zmailer, but it does sound interesting. I believe hotmail
uses zmailer to handle incoming mail and qmail for outgoing mail, so
perhaps each has advantages over the other in certain areas.
> 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 don't like his license either, but I really don't think he is that
petty. From what I can gather, , the discussion on the qmail list on the
subject of a binary rpm is over a few issues, mainly safely updated
/etc/passwd and similar matters regarding maintaining system integridy.
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