Alternatives to Sendmail
David Kramer
david at thekramers.net
Wed Nov 28 12:45:01 EST 2001
On 28 Nov 2001, Seth Gordon wrote:
> 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.
That's a good point. Thank you all for your feedback. It sounds like
postfix is the way to go for me. I don't need high-throughput, just
easier to configure and more secure.
JABR, would you be able to bring me the tape of Courtney's postfix
presentation on Saturday? If so, Ill wait till I see that.
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