Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 09:40:39 -0700 From: "Max Clark" <max.clark@media.net> To: "Tom Samplonius" <tom@sdf.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Ideal mail server: qmail or postfix Message-ID: <ILENIMHFIPIBHJLCDEHKKELGCKAA.max.clark@media.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10307220736410.16986-100000@misery.sdf.com>
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> Yahoo-MTA is based on Qmail, but bares little resemblance to Qmail >now. It looks like every single SMTP response has been changed, except >for "354 go ahead". Plus, Yahoo-MTA supports SIZE and recipient >verification. Yes which is a testimate to qmail's flexibility. You can easily customize the response codes as well as the SIZE/recipient verification in the control files. Look at http://develooper.com/code/qpsmtpd/ it is a drop in replacement for the smtpd daemon written in perl (ever want to write your own plugin to a mail server? here is the framework). Max -----Original Message----- From: Tom Samplonius [mailto:tom@sdf.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 7:39 AM To: Max Clark Cc: James Godwin; freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Ideal mail server: qmail or postfix On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Max Clark wrote: > It should be pointed out... > > Yahoo mail (how many million users do you think they have?) is running > qmail-ldap. The Maildir's are on NetApp filers, the lists are running > exmlm-idx, the web interface seems to be based off of sqWebMail, and the > ldap backend is Novell. ... Yahoo-MTA is based on Qmail, but bares little resemblance to Qmail now. It looks like every single SMTP response has been changed, except for "354 go ahead". Plus, Yahoo-MTA supports SIZE and recipient verification. Tom
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