Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 01:52:36 -0600 From: Tim <tim@sleepy.wojomedia.com> To: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> Cc: Taylor Dondich <thexder@lvcm.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: qmail (Was: Maintaining Access Control Lists ) Message-ID: <20020325015236.A97552@futuresouth.com> In-Reply-To: <p05101509b8c47b17d088@[10.0.1.8]>; from brad.knowles@skynet.be on Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 08:11:42AM %2B0100 References: <F61GQUEYvZmDvHbYxPo0000a6bd@hotmail.com><20020323002608.B20699@ra <p05101505b8c430e28572@[10.0.1.9]> <000c01c1d3ab$6d2c6960$6600a8c0@penguin> <p05101509b8c47b17d088@[10.0.1.8]>
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> However, this is the real power of the Unix "toolbox" philosophy > -- you can put the tools together that you want, in most any way you > want, making the result do just about whatever you want. > Unfortunately, Dan breaks this philosophy by tightly integrating all > his tools together, and making it so that they are all > interdependent. You are kidding right? It looks to me that you are completely blinded by your disdain for Dan. You don't think Postfix took a lot of design hints from qmail? qmail is one of the most modular systems out there. > For example, you can't use the standard inetd that > ships with your system, you are instead forced to use his tcpserver. > And heaven help you if you need to do something that isn't covered by > his tools, because Dan sure won't. From the INSTALL file on a qmail-1.03 distribution 16. Set up qmail-smtpd in /etc/inetd.conf (all on one line): smtp stream tcp nowait qmaild /var/qmail/bin/tcp-env tcp-env /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd > because sooner or later I believe that you are either going to need > to do something that Dan does not consider to be important, or you > are going to run afoul of personality issues with him yourself -- > either way, you will then be out in the cold. the qmail user community is more than sufficient for support. I like Postfix myself, but you are so blatantly biased I am not sure you are any better than what you are accusing Dan of. Tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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