Alternatives to Sendmail

Seth Gordon sethg at ropine.com
Wed Nov 28 12:12:31 EST 2001


Oh, one other thing: qmail is not, strictly speaking, open source.
It's distributed in source form, and plenty of folks have published
patches for it, but (a) there's no explicit license distributed with
the code, so in theory, the author could change his mind and tell
everyone they no longer have permission to redistribute it; (b) anyone
who distributes binaries has to base them on the unpatched source
code, without changing anything, including the directories into which
things are installed.

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