On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 11:47:04PM -0400, Chris Ess wrote: > > Actually, at the time I was using it at least (which is long in the > > past), qmail did/does purposefully ignore most sendmail-isms that > > other MTAs do not such as an /etc/aliases file. > > This functionality was not added into qmail as a default due to reasons > I'm not familiar with. qmail in its natural state is a pretty minimal > MTA, but it's also secure, which is something sendmail can't boast. Well, I think that's a bit unfair. Dan is certainly as careful as one can expect a programmer to be, but that doesn't mean he is flawless. Also, I think that shrifts the recent state of sendmail a bit, which has had a huge auditing effort, etc. Yes, sendmail is large and that makes it harder to secure. But if you're a subscriber to the many-eyeballs theory, you can bet it's had a LOT more eyes than qmail, and how does that impact things? When it comes to new-ish problems like format strings and some of the more esoteric signal handling problems, I don't think it's very fair to make any judgements based on that. If people weren't aware of a problem, how could they design around it? I think these problems could just as easily have happened to qmail. > I'm curious how many of the 'sendmail-isms' are supported by postfix. Everything except the big configuration file, IIRC (I don't pay too much attention to the state of MTAs). Same aliases, and I think the same virtual user stuff, etc. John
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