On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Michael R. Jinks wrote:
> Agreed, sort of -- but bear in mind that you have to draw the line somewhere.
> I'd like a qmail option instead of sendmail, too, but in both cases (pftpd
I think that Red Hat has explained that qmail will _never_ be included in
the Red Hat distribution unless its license changes. The license
currently doesn't allow Red Hat to ship the software in any configuration
other than the default without the permission of the author. That could
make security fixes late, which would be a bad thing.
If sendmail were ever replaced, I'd think that postfix or Courier would be
the best candidate. Courier is a beauty of a mail system. It's
implemented much like qmail, especially in that it uses Maildir's.
However, it's much more complete than qmail. Courier comes with a POP3
server, and IMAP server, a mail list manager, web mail,and a mail filter
similar to procmail. It's very modular, and very fast. As a replacement
for qmail/UW-IMAP/ezmlm it whoops an otters ass at least ten yards. I'm
starting to like it, if that wasn't clear :)
Would I replace sendmail right now? Probably not. Courier is very
standards compliant, actively developed, and stable, but it's not
_old_. It hasn't proven itself yet. (Although I'd argue that what
sendmail's proven is only that it needs to be replaced)
MSG
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