OT: mail server

From: Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner <spc_at_conman.org>
Date: Thu Apr 8 18:10:22 2004

It was thus said that the Great Roger Merchberger once stated:
>
> Why is the most secure MTA not included with every Linux distro? DJB's
> license is (at best) wonky, to preserve his codebase & help alleviate
> techsupport nightmares, and as it's not "Open Source" with fully
> redistributable binaries, none of the linux vendors (except Gentoo, which
> compiles stuff on the fly) will touch it.

  And it requires the creation of six user accounts *just* to run the mail
system, plus it has a different management program than inetd (or xinetd) to
make it annoying for Unix admins (okay, *this* Unix admin). Also, it's
support for virtual domains is ... kludgy (from what I remember).

  -spc (Postfix, on the other hand, it quite nice ... )
Received on Thu Apr 08 2004 - 18:10:22 BST